Washington-Kongres finally approved the Act on the arrest of early Saturday, which will keep the government open for several months, after boisterous 48 hours, which served as a preview of what the second term of the President-Elekt Donald Trump could look like.
A tiny -term expenditure package, the third version of the Act, which will be issued this week, will provide legislators by mid -March to negotiate an agreement on several funds of government financing and ensure assist in a nature cage worth about $ 100 billion.
Although it was technically handed over by the Senate after the north to closure, deputy press secretary of the White House Emilie Simons said on x These agencies will continue normal operations.
The house passed the bill on Friday evening after 366-34 Voting with one democrat voting “present”. The Senate voted 85-11 Shortly after midnight on Saturday. President Joe Biden signed the law on Saturday morning.
Legislation did not include any language or raising or suspension of the debt limit, rejecting Trump’s request that it would be resolved. Congress and Trump will have to deal with this next year, when the chamber, the Senate and the White House will control.
. 118-page account It will expand the programs in a five -year agricultural account to September, giving the Chamber and Senate more time to download the contract, although they are over a year slow.
The package would not block the members of the Congress from the first correction of remuneration of living costs from January 2009, next year increasing the remuneration of legislators from USD 174,000 to a maximum of USD 180,600.
It does not include the provision considered at the beginning of this week, which would allow for all -year sale of mixed E15 gasoline in the whole country in winning for breeders and corn biofules.
The White House announced during voting in the Chamber that Biden supports legislation.
“Although it does not cover everything we were looking for, it covers relief in the case of disasters, for which the president asked for communities coming out of the storm, eliminates the accelerated path to the reduction of taxes for billionaires and ensures that the government can continue to work with full capacity, wrote press secretary Karine Jean -Parre. “President Biden supports the transfer of these provisions forward and ensuring that the necessary services that the government provides for difficult -working Americans – from issuing social insurance control to the processing of benefits for veterans – can be continued, as well as providing assistance for the community, which was influenced by destructive hurricanes . “
Oddies in contradictions
The chairman of home remedies, Tom Cole, R-okla., Called for support for the Act during a floor debate, saying that he would avoid partial closing of the government, provide farmers with assist in the case of disasters and send economic assistance.
“The regulation of continuous resolution is never perfect, but Congress is obliged to maintain an open and acting government for the American people,” Cole said. “An alternative, closing the government, would be catastrophic for our national defense and our voters and would be a serious mistake.”
Representative of the Democratic Connecticut, Rosa Delauro, a ranking member at the Committee on Men, spoke against the act and criticized GOP negotiators from the departure from the original, double -sided version published on Tuesday.
She rejected the billionaire Elon Musk, a close ally Trump, apparently calling arrows, as if he were a chosen legislator, although she finally voted for the passage.
“The United States Congress was thrown into Pandemonium,” said Delauro. “This leads to the question, who is responsible?”
Trump, musk reservations
Democrats and Republicans arrived Contract at the beginning of this week To finance the government, provide assist in the case of disasters, expand agricultural and nutrition programs on the agricultural account, expand various healthcare programs and complete dozens of other items. But Trump intervened, preventing House GOP leaders from placing this bill on the floor in the vote.
Trump and musk were not supporting some foreign provisions in the original bill And Trump began to press the legislators to deal with the debt limit, not during the second term.
Republicans of the Chamber I tried to convey my first account stopping only GOP On Thursday evening, but it was not possible to vote in 174–235, and 38 GOP legislators voted against the act. This act included a two -year suspension of the debt limit, but this was resigned from the version on Friday.
Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, said on Friday before voting that GOP was united from his plan.
“We have a united republican conference. There is a unanimous agreement in the room we have to follow, “said Johnson after a 90-minute closed meeting. “I expect us to proceed in the future. We will not have the government closing. We will stop our obligations for our farmers, victims of disasters throughout the country, and to mark certain military services and necessary services, and all who rely on the federal government for paying for holidays. “
In total, 34 Republicans of Houses voted against the act. No house Democrats voted against the passage.
For now without closing
The Chamber and the Senate do not agree to some Act on alloy expenses, before the date on Friday of North would lead to the expiry of financing, which would probably lead to partial closing of the government when the holidays begin.
During closing, the necessary government functions covering the protection of life and real estate are ongoing, although no federal employees would receive payments until the end. This loss of income would also expand to US soldiers.
“If the government is closed, let him start now, under the Biden administration, not after January 20, under” Trump “, the president-elect published on social media on Friday morning. “This is a biden problem to solve, but if the Republicans can assist you solve it, they will do it!”
In a separate post, which increased just after 1 am, Trump doubled, so that every tiny -term expenditure account suspended the debt limit for the next four years or completely eliminated the loan ceiling.
“Congress must get rid of or expand, perhaps in 2029, a funny ceiling of debt,” wrote Trump. “We should never conclude a contract without it. Remember that the pressure on who is the president. “
Last updated 11:30, December 21, 2024
