Washington (AP) – Republicans and Democrats spent the first day of the federal government to accuse each other for the dysfunction, as iconic sites that represent the country’s core identity – by the Liberty Bell in Pennsylvania to Pearl Harbor in Hawaii – were temporarily closed.
The Trump government has used Vice President JD Vance to appear in the briefing room of the White House to incorrectly argue that the Democrats refused to keep the government financed because they tried to illegally expand health insurance.
The top democrats countered that they only want to extend the financing of subsidies in healthcare within the framework of the Affordable Care Act so that the insurance premiums do not address nationwide for American families.
No side said that it would be stirring, but as the fingers continued, the economic pain was more likely to be at risk of hundreds of thousands of jobs and basic services.
“We will have to put people off”
The caller to the Commentary Line of the White House heard a recorded message from press spokesman Karoline Leavitt, in which she explained: “Democrats in the congress have closed the federal government because they take care of the financing of health care for illegal immigrants than that they are interested in them, the American people, the American people.” Several federal authorities have published open partisan news on their websites in which Democrats are responsible for shutting down.
The White House underlined its argument by reviving a deep papal video, which was posted by President Donald Trump by the democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries in a false mustache and sombrero, a meme that Jeffries described as Bigotte. They played it in the Briefing Room of the White House, although Vance promised that the “Sombrero memes will stop” when the government is reopened.
Jeffries reacted with a meme that overcome a picture of Vance with a fat head and curly, long hair. “JD vance believes that we will result in the Republican efforts for a sombrero meme.
Vance said that he could not predict how long the shutdown could take, but he also did not believe that it would be lengthy because some moderate democrats of the Senate could soon vote with GOP colleagues to restore the financing.
“Let’s be honest if this thing dresses for a few more days or, God, a few more weeks, we have to put people off,” said Vance.
The democratic chairman of the Senate, Chuck Schumer from New York, said Trump refused to negotiate in good faith, and that the demands of the Democrats, who are illegally close to immigrants in the country, were a lie.
“Donald Trump says it loudly and clearly: he uses the American people as farmers and threatens to pain in the country,” said Schumer.
It was expected to be assessed by around 750,000 federal employees, some potentially fired. Many offices may have been closed permanently when the Republican President promised to “do things that are irreversible” to punish Democrats.
The most critical political priorities of the White House, including an aggressive deportation agenda, can continue with a few disorders. But education, the environment and other services can finally spast. The economic failure could further endanger an already frail job market, since a job report on Wednesday from the wage and salary statement ADP showed that private employers reduced 32,000 jobs last month.
The Trump government has also started to aim at financing projects in democratic states.
The Budget Director of the White House, Russian, announced on Wednesday a deployment of around 18 billion US dollars for the construction of the Hudson Rail Tunnel and the Second Avenue Subway Line in New York City, two projects that are Schumer. He later announced that projects for Green Energy projects of almost 8 billion US dollars for 16 countries would be held back, all countries represented by two Democrats in the Senate.
Mixed survey
The last closure of the government took place at the end of 2018 and early 2019 during the first administration of Trump. It focused on a fight between the two parties through the financing of a wall along the border between Mexico and the US and took more than 30 days. However, the congress had already passed separate financing measures and ensured that switching off only partially influenced state services and was not as widespread as it could be.
Trump took most of the guilt for the last closure, with an AP-NORC survey carried out during the IT and that about 7 out of 10 Americans said Donald Trump had “a lot” or “quite a lot” responsibility.
This time, about two thirds of the registered voters said in a New York Times/Siena survey, which was carried out before the closure, did not say the Democrats to stop the government, even if their claims were not met.
Nevertheless, the Republicans could also have a setback as a party in power. Over a quarter of the registered voters in this survey, she said that they would blame Trump and the Republicans in the congress if a closure would happen, while about 2 out of 10 information from the Democrats of the Congress would blame. About a third said they would blame both sides.
The shutdown begins to keep up
The federal courts will be fully functional at least until October 17, and the potentially life -saving forecast of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and its National Weather Service was not disturbed.
But tours through the Liberty Bell were scrapped, and St. Louis’ Gateway Arch and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and the museum in Boston closed. The Pearl Harbor National Memorial in Hawaii started on Wednesday, even though the officials worked with non -profit partners to reopen it.
In the Acadia National Park in Maine, where 4 million visits are available a year, prospective hikers checked in search of trail cards empty containers outside the closed visitor center. Jim Feather from Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, and his wife were not sure whether she could fight the Cadillac Mountain with his panoramic view to the North Atlantic coast.
“It is frustrating that they play politics in DC,” said Feather. “Your job is to say goodbye to a budget. And if you don’t do your job, what do you do down there?”
– Associated Press Writers Lindsay Whitehurst and Darlene Superville in Washington, Jennifer Kelleher in Honolulu, Alexa St. John in Detroit and Robert F. F. Bukaty from the Acadia National Park contributed to this report.
