Washington (AP) – The hope of a compact end of the government conclusion on Friday, when the Democrats refused to stir a vote in the Senate, and President Donald Trump led plans, layoffs and cuts throughout the federal government.
On the third day of the closure, another Senate completion voted to drive a republican bill that would reopen the government, with a 54-44-count only the 60, which are necessary to end a filibuster and adopt the legislation. In the meantime, the spokesman for the house, Mike Johnson, announced that the chamber would close for the legislative business next week, a step to force the Senate to work with the house support law adopted by the Republicans.
After the failed coordination, the senators quickly made their way to the outputs of the Capitol, no longer expected voices at the weekend and showed only a few signs of real progress in the end of the congress. Instead, both sides have immersed themselves for a longer locking struggle, the federal employee transformed into more uncertainty, introduces himself to the broader economy and gives the Trump government the opportunity to redesign the federal government.
“I don’t know how often they give them the chance to choose no,” said the majority leader of the Senate, John Thune, at a press conference on Friday. After the vote, he said that he flew to South Dakota for the weekend and added: “I will be available.”
The vote showed hardening lines in the Senate. Three members of the Democratic Caucus – Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto, John Fetterman and Angus King – who voted for the financing law, did this again before, and Senator Randrand Paul von Kentucky was again the only republican subject.
“They thought they could swallow and threaten us and frighten us. It doesn’t work,” said Chuck Schumer, Democratic Chairman of the Senate.
Democrats demand that the congress run out the healthcare services while the Republicans refused to commit to anything until the government is reopened. They try to wear democrats to vote for a draft law that the government would temporarily reopen, mainly at current output levels.
Although the Republicans control the White House and both congress chambers, the Filibuster rules of the Senate make it necessary for the state financing laws to be supported by at least 60 of the 100 senators. This has a infrequent opportunity for the Democrats to utilize their 47 Senate seats in exchange for political concessions. The party has chosen the topic of health care and believes that it could be the key to her way back to power in Washington.
Their main request is that the congress extended tax credits that were increased during the COVID-19 pandemic for health plans that were offered as part of the market plans that were affected as part of the law as part of Marketplaces.
“Everyone will experience dramatically reinforced premiums, co-plays and deductible due to the republican health crisis,” warned the democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries during a press conference on Friday.
The switch -off game
The Democrats carry out the strategy with high risk of effectively voting for state closure in order to achieve their point of view. Trump swore to make them as painful as possible.
The Republican President described state financing as a “unprecedented opportunity” in order to carry out the federal authorities enormous cuts and possibly relieve federal workers instead of extinguishing it. Trump announced a social media video on Thursday evening, in which the budget director of the White House, Russ Russ, who is implemented as a Sense reaper.
VOUGHT has already announced that he is holding billions of dollars back for infrastructure projects in countries with democratic senators, and on Friday morning he said he would hold a further 2.1 billion dollars for the infrastructure projects of Chicago to extend his train system to the south side of the city.
Democratic leaders have shown no signs that these threats move.
“The cruelty that they could possibly unleash on everyday Americans who use the pretext of a shutdown will only backfire against them,” said Jeffries during an interview with Associated Press and other branches on Thursday evening in capitol.
Nevertheless, the shutdown, no matter how long it takes, could have far -reaching effects on the economy. According to the impartial congress household office, around 750,000 federal employees could be assessed and they could lose the daily wages of $ 400 million. This loss of wages until the reopening of the government could reduce a broader demand for goods and services.
“Real people are being endured all over the country at the moment because the Democrats have decided to play politics,” said House spokesman Mike Johnson on Friday.
The White House also started its press conference on Friday by handling the various consequences of the closure that Americans already hit. Press spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt discussed a report in which military families are already looking for food aid when troops go out without a salary check.
“This madness has to end,” she said.
Talks in the Senate
A cross -party group of senators, including moderate Democrats who have declared that they want to find a quick solution, has spoken about possible health care in the past two days. An option that hovered by South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds, a Republican, would extend the higher subsidies by one year and then execute to pre-pandemic level.
Thune recognized these talks on Friday and said reporters: “To be honest, I think that the more productive conversations are taking place outside of the leader’s office at the moment.”
Thune and Schumer later talked about the Senate. The Republican leader expressed a certain openness to discussions about the ACA sub -talks, but insisted that we can only achieve this conversation until we get the government in order again. “
A number of Republicans have expressed support for the expansion of the subsidies. For many people in states with GOP senators, their process would cause significant increases in health premiums – especially in rural areas in which farmers, cattle breeders and petite business owners take out their own health insurance.
Nevertheless, it was unclear whether they were able to find a solution that the White House and the Republican leaders who would like to see cuts on the subsidies could appease. Thune also said he was not sure whether a compromise would have the voices.
Johnson, a Republican in Louisiana, said on Friday that “further reforms for the ACA work would come” and argued that they “do not work”.
Schumer also said that he supported the informal discussions, but “unfortunately last night” the Democrats returned from the discussions and said that the Republicans had not offered anything.
“You need Trump to do it,” he said.
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Associated Press Writers Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking and Joey Cappelletti contributed.
