The Senate Democrats blocked a draft law with a house on Friday to finance federal departments and agencies for seven weeks, and put Washington on the way to a state closure on October 1.
The Democrats came near the harmony The house said goodbye on Friday on Friday With a vote of 217-212.
Two Republicans voted against the ongoing decision of the house: Senator Rand Paul (Ky.), A pronounced fiscal falcon, who argued that it would extend the expenditure level from the bidges, and Senator Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), a centrist that previously belonged to the statutory subordinate this year this year. has.
Democrats blocked the resolution that the government was financed until November 21 The Republicans defeated an alternative democratic proposal To finance the government by October 31, extend the health insurance subsidies and restore the Medicaid Financing Curgery of almost 1 trillion dollar.
The two failed voices leave republican and democratic leaders in loggerheads about how they can avoid the government in just 11 days.
The majority leader of the Senate, John Thune (Rs.d), put pressure on the Democrats under pressure to support the Stopgap financing measure fit home, and presented it as the only legal template that has the chance to become President Trump’s signature of the law.
“Republican law is a clean, non -participating, short -term, continuous decision to finance the government in order to give us time to carry out the full appropriation procedure,” he said on the floor.
The GOP leader confirmed that he was not interested in meeting the democratic chairman of the Senate Chuck Schumer (NY) in order to negotiate a compromise measure to keep the government open.
“I made it very clear that the Senate wanted the Senate to return to the regular order billing of medium-term calculations. I was not and I am not interested in financing the government through last-minute backroom offers,” said Thun.
The Democrats are pushing the Republicans to combine the continued decision in order to extend the premium subsidies for health care according to the Affordable Care Act, which should expire at the end of the year.
Schumer said on Friday that the Republicans were responsible for closure because they refused to negotiate with Democrats on the financing plan, even though they need democratic voices to say goodbye to the Senate.
Schumer pointed out that the government was not closed under the former president Biden, and the Democrats controlled the majority of the Senate because they were ready to negotiate.
“When we were in the majority for four years, there was no shutdown. None. Why? Because we did what to do – in a cross -party negotiation, and every side has input,” he told the Senate’s Republican, John Barrasso (Wyo.) In a heated moment in the Senate on Friday.
“We did it right. You are not,” he said.
Republican leaders asked the house members on Friday that they should only return to Washington after the financing period has expired and cancel planned votes for September 29 and September. The Gambit gives the Democrats the ultimatum to rethink the overwhelming continuous resolution or to trigger a shutdown.
“If the Democrats of the Senate insist on the Federal Government’s closure on Schumer, the members should be willing to return to DC,” the announcement said to the members.
Some democratic senators feel uncomfortable with regard to the risky confrontation of their leadership about state financing.
Late. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) told the hill The constant warnings of the Democrats that Trump’s overzealous power takes over the country on the way to “autocracy” contradicts her uncompromising position on the brief -term financing account.
Fetterman warns colleagues that Trump and Russell, the director of the Office for Management and Budget, would only give more power to Trump and Russell, of which Schumer even warned in March when he voted for a Partisaner House Gop-Gop-Gop with six months.
“If the Democrats really believe that we are on a carcaty on a rocket sled, why should we hand over a closed government to Trump and Vought’s WoodChipper in the OMB?” Fetterman said in an explanation.
“I am not ready to vote for mass chaos and lead this risk,” he added.
But many other democrats think You have levers over the White House and the Republicans In congress due to increasing health insurance premiums and the unpopularity of the one enormous, lovely draft law of the GOP, which reduced 1 trillion US dollar from Medicaid.
Some Democrats think, even if they do not gain any concessions of republicans while the government was closed, they will score political points by highlighting the GOP opposition to extend the improved Obamacare prize subsidies and restore medicaid.
“Today we have a rare moment in the Senate, in which two legislation comes onto the ground that really crystallize the contrast between the two parties,” said Schumer before the vote.
“The choice is now clear. Our Republican colleagues seem to believe that the Americans are satisfied with the direction of this country. They agree as if the status quo is good enough, even though they have heard of so many of their voters that the fear of the closure of hospitals, health care, by premiums that are kept up,” he said.
The financing of the alternative democratic government would have permanently extended the improvement of health insurance premiums by 349.8 billion US dollars over 10 years.
