Washington – the Senate approached the key test voting on Friday afternoon, because legislators worked on partial closing of the government, and Democrats confrontati with two painful options: enabling the adoption of the law, which they think gives President Donald Trump a great recognition of the decision of expenses or voting and allowing the expiration of financing.
At least eight Democrats will have to join the Republicans to introduce the bill to the 60-voice threshold and go.
The leader of the Democratic Senate Chuck Schumer gave the members of his clubs to the club to respond to the frustration related to options, but suddenly changed the course and explained On the eve of voting, it will not allow the government to close. His movement outraged many in the party who want to fight the Trump program, but gives senators a place to the side with republicans and allow us to continue solving, often described as CR.
In a sporadic move, democratic leadership, which basically maintained a line against the act in their chamber, released a handkerchief, warning about the Trump cave, billionaire Elon Musk and a republican program marching ahead in Congress.
“Democrats from home will not be complicated,” wrote the leader of the democratic democratic Hakeem Jeffries, the democratic whip of Katherine Clark and chairwoman of the democratic democratic Kluk Pete Aguilar in a joint statement from the annual retreat of the party conference in which frustration was boiled.
“We are definitely against the guerrilla project of expenses in the Senate.”
But early Friday Schumer raised one unexpected nod of support – from Trump himself, who only a day before preparing for blaming Democrats for any closing.
“Congratulations to Chuck Schumer for the proceedings – he took” courage “and courage!” The president has published on his account on social media.
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Schumer recognized the complex choice he faced, but he insisted that the democrats would not allow the government to close and warn against havoc Trump and Musk if the federal offices were closed.
“Closing will allow to go to the extent,” said Schumer, referring to the musk managed by the musk Department of Government. “Donald Trump and Elon Musk could freely destroy important government services at a much faster pace.”
Congress was not able to adopt annual accounts for funds to finance the government, so instead they resorted to transferring low -term extensions. Legislation before the Senate third Such continuous solution to the current financial year, currently almost half.
Legislation would finance the federal government until the end of September. He would cut expenses without defense by about $ 13 billion compared to the previous year and would boost defense expenses by about $ 6 billion, which are marginal changes when you talk about the level of expenditure at the highest level of almost $ 1.7 trillion.
A house managed by Republicans passed Expense account on Tuesday, and then postponed. The transfer left senators with a decision to take or leave it. And while the Democrats insisted on voting on the fourth low -term extension, GOP management explained that the option was not the beginning.
Most Senate leader, John Thune, rs.d. And others stated that all blame for closing would fall directly on the democrats.
“Democrats must decide whether they support the financing of the regulations that came from the Chamber or close the government,” said Thune.
Progressive groups called democratic legislators to insist on a 30-day extension and opposed the expenditure law, saying that business cannot last as usual.
“There is still time,” said Rep. Melanie Stansbury from Nowy Mexico during democratic isolation in Leesburg, Virginia. “So, any of my colleagues from the Senate who are considering voting on the clot, the American nation screams: please do not give the keys to Elon Musk.”
But Schumer said that Trump would catch more power during closure, because it would give administration the opportunity to recognize entire agencies, programs and staff, insignificant, Furloughing staff Without a promise that they will ever be employed.
Democrats criticized the level of financing in the bill. But they are more worried about the discretion that the bill gives the administration of Trump in relation to expenses’ decisions. Many democrats refer to the inside as a “empty control” for Trump.
The issuing of bills usually include specific financial directives for key programs, but hundreds of these directives fall off according to the continuation of the resolution by the chamber. So the administration will have more freedom to decide where the money is coming.
For example, a democratic note said that the act would allow administration to combat money from combating fentanyl and exploit it instead Mass deportation initiatives.
Democrats also oppose the treatment of Colombia’s district, because the Act effectively repeals the budget this year and forces it to return to the levels of the previous year, despite the fact that the district collects most of its own money. Mayor Muriel Bowser said that the district would have to reduce expenses by $ 1.1 billion in just a few months.
Democrats also oppose the recovery of $ 20 billion in special IRS financing, in addition to resignation worth $ 20 billion approved a year earlier through the regulations adopted by Democrats during the presidency of Joe Biden.
The draft expenditure account before the Senate is separated from GOP efforts in order to extend tax reductions for people adopted in the first term of Trump and partial payment for their cuts in another place in the government.
The second package will be developed in the coming months, but it was clearly part of the political account.
“You look at one or two blow, a very bad CR, and then the outgoing reconciliation account, which will be the last kick in the teeth for the American nation,” said Senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT.
Senator Tom Cotton, R-Ark., Said that democratic arguments for voting against the act were hypocritical because they essentially called to close the government to protect the government.
“Democrats are fighting to suspend payments of air traffic controllers, our soldiers, federal care workers,” said Cotton. “They can’t be serious.”
