Washington (AP)-as possible shutdown of the federal government, the democratic leaders of the congress call for a meeting with President Donald Trump in order to endure an end to the government office if no measures are taken by the end of the month.
Senator Chuck Schumer and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries said on Saturday that the Republicans had refused to have talks on Trump’s insistence. The Democrats are urging health programs to receive as part of each deal to keep the government on September 30th on September 30th.
“We write to demand a meeting in connection with your decision to close the federal government because the republican wish of further developing the health care system of the American people,” wrote the two New York Democrats.
“Democrats were clear and consistent in our position,” they said. “We are ready to work on a cross -party spending contract that improves the life of American families and deals with the Republican health crisis.”
An official of the Trump Administration, who was not entitled to comment on the matter publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity, rejected the Democrats’ claim.
The congress, which is controlled by Republicans, could not deal with the financing problems before the legislator left the city for a break on Friday.
The house approved a Republican proposal to keep the federal government financed in November, but the measure failed in the Senate. A democratic proposal that would have increased the health care fund also failed.
Everything leaves the congress and the white house without a elementary way out of the patient situation, which threatens a shutdown in less than two weeks when the current financial year and the financing runs. In Trump’s first term in 2018-2019, one month was closed, the longest in federal history.
Trump predicted on Friday that there could be “a closed country for a certain period of time”. He said the government would continue to “maintain” military and social security in a closure.
The Republicans insisted that they are not responsible for a possible shutdown and turn back to the Democrats.
The spokesman for the House of Representatives Mike Johnson, R-La., And the majority leader of the Senate, John Thune, Rs.d., have presented the short-term measure, which is a typical way, as the congress solves such logjams. This would keep the government operations at the current level if the talks get started.
While the house was able to close the momentary financing measure for a mostly cross -party vote, the process in the Senate can require a higher threshold of 60 grades, which means that the Republicans and Democrats need support.
Democrats work on the protection of health programs. The democratic proposal would extend extended health insurance grants, which should expire after the end of the year, as well as reverse Medicaid cuts that were included in the immense tax benefits of the Republicans and the expenditure of the beginning of this year.
The Republicans said that the Democrats’ demands to reverse the changes from Medicaid were a non -fiery, but they also said that there is time to address the problem of health insurance subsidies in the coming months.
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Associated Press Writer Aamer Madhani contributed to this report.
