In the absence of agreement to the congress between the Republicans and the Democrats, the government’s budget will officially expire at midnight.
The United States is inexorably approaching a budgetary paralysis after the failure on Tuesday in the Senate of a final attempt to avoid the freezing of part of the federal services, the famous «shutdown».
At midnight during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, the federal state budget will expire and then begin the “Shutdown”, with the consequence of the arrest of part of its services. The Congress’s budget office estimates that some 750,000 civil servants will be unemployed daily, with a deferred balance. Air traffic could be affected while the payment of many social assistance should be strongly disrupted.
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According to calculations by analysts from the Nationwide insurance company, each week of “Shutdown” could reduce the annual growth of American GDP by 0.2 percentage points.
“Irreversible” consequences
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Even before the vote in the Senate, each camp was referring to the failure of the negotiations. Democrats “Want to close everything, we don’t want it”assured President Donald Trump from the Oval Office. He also increased the pressure by ensuring that the situation could have consequences “Irreversible” If the Democrats did not end up accepting the budget wanted by the Republicans.
“We can, during the” Shutdown “, do things that are irreversible, which will be bad for them. As to dismiss many people ”added the American president, threatening to intensify the dismissal operations of thousands of federal officials, already started with the DOGE commission of his ex-ally Musk.
The 35 -day record
The latest “Shutdown”, from the end of December 2018 to the end of January 2019, during the first term of Donald Trump, had lasted 35 days, a record.
In view of the very unpopular character of such a situation, Democrats as Republicans traditionally try to avoid this federal paralysis, sometimes at the last moment. But in the event of failure, everyone tries to reject responsibility on the opposing camp.
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Donald Trump has already viturated several times against Democratic leaders and has published on his Truth Social platform a video montage generated by artificial intelligence showing the chief of the Democrat minority in the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, adorned with a long mustache and a Mexican sombrero. A montage denounced as “racist” by the main interested party, who also regrets the absence of constructive dialogue.
Two divided camps
All of them already have in mind the mid-term legislative elections in November 2026, during which the republican majority at the congress will be handed over in the balance. And while waiting for midnight limit time, the lines do not move. On the one hand, the Republicans offer an extension of the current budget until the end of November. On the other hand, Democrats want to restore hundreds of billions of dollars in health spending, especially in the “Obamacare” health insurance program for households in the popular classes, suppressed by the Trump administration.
If the Republicans have the majority to the two chambers of the congress, the Senate regulation means that a budgetary text should be adopted in 60 votes out of 100, therefore requiring at least seven democratic votes.
Donald Trump received the main republican officials and Democrats in the Congress on Monday, a meeting that only confirmed the deadlock of negotiations. “We have the will and the ability to find a way of understanding”assured Hakeem Jeffries on Tuesday. But “We will not support a republican partisan bill which continues to dismantle the American health system, nor now, or never”he added in front of the Capitol of Washington.
The reluctant vote of the Democrats
In March, when the threat of a “Shutdown” already hovered, the Republicans had refused to initiate dialogue on the huge budget cuts and the dismissal of thousands of civil servants decided by the Trump administration. Ten Democratic senators, including Chuck Schumer, had contactedly voted for the text of the Republicans, in order to avoid federal paralysis.
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Their choice had provoked lively eddies in the Democratic camp, many activists and sympathizers accusing them of folding against Donald Trump and his program deemed radical.
In the absence of agreement to the congress between the Republicans, allies of Donald Trump, and the opposition democrats, the government’s budget will officially expire at midnight. After which, hundreds of thousands of federal civil servants will be unemployed.
