The American Chamber of Republican Republican representatives adopted, on Tuesday, May 11, a provisional budgetary text in order to postpone the prospect of a federal state paralysis, the famous Shutdown. The text, approved with 217 votes for and 213 votes against, is now heading for the Senate, where it will have to be voted before the deadline on Friday evening midnight.
In view of their short majority, the Republicans of the House of Representatives were advancing on the razor thread, but their leader, Mike Johnson, had posted his optimism before the vote. “We can do it on our own side”without the help of the Democratic votes, he assured, while calling on the opposition to be ” responsible “ and to vote in favor of the republicans’ proposal.
A single democrat finally joined the Republicans, while the chief of the Democratic minority in the House, Hakeem Jeffries, had said that none would vote in favor of the text, qualified as an attack as an attack “On veterans, seniors, and families”due to cuts provided for in certain public expenses.
After the vote, Mike Johnson denounced in a statement the fact that, according to him, the Democrats were “Ready to play the watch on the financing of the government, in a vain attempt to block the program” America first “” by Donald Trump.
“No dissent,” said Trump
Faced with the risk of seeing some Republicans vote against and failing the text, Donald Trump had personally involved and had called refractory potential. On Saturday, he had already launched a warning to them: “No dissent”.
With falling stocks and growing fears of recession, Donald Trump faces the first opposite winds of his second mandate in economic matters. And he knows that a paralysis of the federal state would do nothing. Congress has until midnight overnight from Friday to Saturday to adopt a temporary budget.
If he couldn’t, hundreds of thousands of civil servants will be unemployed, without pay. Air traffic will be disrupted, such as the payment of certain food aids to low -income families, among other consequences. A situation at risk that Donald Trump would like to avoid a month and a half after his return to the White House.
The Republican surely remembers that during his first mandate, a dispute with the Democrats on the financing of the construction of his wall on the border with Mexico had caused partial paralysis of the federal state for thirty-five days.
A “white check” in Musk
Faced with the prospect of a new Shutdown, Republicans and Democrats reject the fault. “Democrats hate so much what President Trump supports and what the American people support, that they are ready to paralyze our government”said the elected Republican Lisa McClain at a press conference before the vote.
Democrat Rosa Delauro, on the contrary, denounced a text which “Will hurt the Americans working hard”especially on the issue of housing. “This white check to the non -elected billionaire Elon Musk fails to lower the costs to find accommodation, and instead, saber more than $ 700 million in subsidies for the rents of low -income and workers”said the elected official in a statement.
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Because the risk of budgetary paralysis arrives against a background of clear cuts in American public spending, carried out under the aegis of Elon Musk. The boss notably Tesla and SpaceX is the head of a commission with government efficiency (DOGE), which has embarked, with the approval of Donald Trump, in the dismantling of several government agencies and the dismissal of tens of thousands of civil servants.