“Well, shutdown melodrama continues.”
Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana sighs, summarizing the third day of the US government’s closure.
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On Friday, the US Senator reorganized the voting again on a continuous resolution that could provide funds by November 21 before the weekend rest.
The Republican Party maintained its current state by promoting the resolution as a “clean” budget bill. But the Democratic Party said it would not consider legislation that did not consider medical expenses.
Subsidies for AFODABLE CARE ACT will expire by the end of the year, and in fact, premiums are expected to increase to many Americans. And the Democratic Party urged the Republican to reconsider Medicaid, a government insurance program for low -income families, after the Republican bill was passed earlier this year.
But the result was a trouble with the National Assembly. Frustration was found on both sides.
Kennedy said, “This shutdown is deep and stupid.
Fourth on Friday, the Democratic Party rejected the Republican proposal and previously passed the House of Representatives.
Democratic Democratic Catherine Cortez Masto, Democratic Party John Peterman, Maine’s Independence Angus King
Senator Land Paul also refused to vote with his party members. He said his concern was how spending would contribute to federal debt.
As a result, only 60 votes were to overcome the Democratic Filibuster to strengthen this bill with a 54-44 vote at a 100 -seat Senate Chamber of Commerce.
In the opposite lottery, the Democratic Party suggested more than $ 1 trillion in legislation dedicated to medical expenditures. But it is too unders in the Senate voting.
Finger point in the National Assembly
Later, at a press conference, Chuck Schumer, Senate’s ethnic minority leader, said that the deadlock could be damaged only if the Republican Party changed tactics and negotiated health care issues.
“Today, we saw the Republican play like the same and they got the same result. The problem is: He told reporters.
Schumer accused the Republican’s “waste” with four votes that ended the same result.
“My cocus and the Democratic Party are firm that we should protect the health of the American people.” “The White House and fellow Republican Party have sweared to make this closure of the biggest pain instead of coming to the table and negotiating with the Democratic Party and resuming the government.”
Republican leaders, meanwhile, accused the Democratic Party attempted to stop the process instead of doing the current state.
The House of Representatives Mike Johnson also insisted that programs such as Medicaid desperately need reform.
“We reformed it because Medicaid was full of fraud and abuse. Why to help Americans to provide better health services,” he said. “We were not there because there were many people in Medicaid.”
Johnson accused Schumer that he tried to appeal to the Democratic Party’s progressive branch, hoping for a 2028 preliminary election for the Senate.
But both sides of the aisle expressed their sympathy to federal workers in the middle of closure.
The parliamentary budget office estimates that about 750,000 people are shut down every day. Others must continue to work without wages.
According to the budget office statistics, the total compensation for rubber staff is about $ 400 million a day. In 2019, the federal staff will eventually receive a private employee thanks to the treatment of laws and civil service fairs. But only after the closure.
Pressure tactics
Johnson announced a notice that the House of Representatives will not return to the session by October 14th to force the Democratic Party to pass on a continuous resolution.
Instead, his memo demanded representatives to participate in the “Earth Working period” far from the US capital.
This announcement was designed to put pressure on the Senate on the continuous resolution that the Senate has already passed. Before Johnson was announced, the house was expected to resume his work in the Parliamentary Party on October 7.
Meanwhile, John Thune, the Senate Leader, said he would be willing to evaluate the Democratic Party’s concern about medical care, but only after the government opened again.
Nevertheless, he did not guarantee that if the Democratic Party was regressed, the expiration of medical subsidies would be again.
“We can’t make a promise or promise to the covid subsidy, because it is not because we can guarantee that there will be something to do, but what I said is that we can talk about how to solve the problem with Democrats.
“But it can’t happen while the government is closed.”
Republican President Donald Trump, meanwhile, threatened to use shutdown as an opportunity to cut federal labor and to cut programs that help democratic base.
Already this week, his administration said that about $ 8 billion in the New York City Infrastructure Project, including the Hudson River’s tunnel, is suspended in a $ 18 billion clean energy initiative.
But on Friday, Trump’s US management and budget director Russ Vought announced that another major city would aim to cut: Chicago, Illinois.
Vought posted two Chicago infrastructure projects, worth $ 2.1 billion in social media, “We have been suspended so that financing does not flow through lace -based contracts.”
Later, at the news briefing, White House reporter Karoline Leavitt is also in a decrease in federal labor and discussed with meetings with agency leaders.
Leavitt said, “If the Democratic Party does the right thing, the government can end, our army can get money again.
“But if this shutdown continues, as we said, dismissal is an unfortunate result.”
But Democratic leaders dismissed these threats as pressure tactics to interfere with the major problems of medical care.
According to him, Schumer argued that health care is the top priority of the Republican district and that Republican leaders should respond accordingly.
Schumer said, “Simple.” They can reopen the government and make people’s medical care more cheaper.
