Republican and Democratic elected officials reached a provisional agreement allowing government financing until January.
American senators have reached an agreement intended to put an end to the budgetary paralysis which has blocked part of the country’s public services for 40 days, a record, according to several American media. Republican and Democratic elected officials have reached a provisional agreement allowing the financing of the government until January, report in particular CNN and Fox News, according to which a formal vote is expected overnight.
«Looks like we’re nearing the end of the shutdown“, President Donald Trump told the press, returning to the White House after spending the weekend in his Florida residence at Mar-a-Lago. After possible approval in the Senate, the text will still have to pass before the House of Representatives, before being submitted to Donald Trump for signature.
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Hundreds of thousands of federal civil servants have been working without pay since the start of the “shutdown” on October 1, which has disrupted the payment of social assistance and air traffic.
“This fight will and must continue”
According to parliamentarians, the agreement reached in the Senate should make it possible to replenish the food aid program which supports 42 million Americans, and whose payments are disrupted by the budget blockage. It would also involve reversing Donald Trump’s firing of thousands of federal workers last month, and holding a vote on extending health care aid, which is set to expire at the end of the year.
The proposal “protect federal workers from wrongful termination, reinstate those wrongfully fired during the shutdown, and ensure that federal workers receive their salaries retroactively», Said Democratic Senator Tim Kaine in a press release.
The leader of the Democratic minority in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, however, deplored that the extension of health aid was subject to a vote and not a direct extension. “This fight will and must continue“, he launched in the upper house.
