The United States will remain in a situation of budgetary paralysis at least until next week, after the failure on Friday of a new vote in the Senate, still as divided between Republicans and Democrats.
After three days of “Shutdown” which saw hundreds of thousands of federal officials being unemployed, the republican budget proposal still failed to bring together the democratic voices necessary to end the blocking.
“It is possible that this Shutdown continues for weeks, and not only a few days,” said before the Andrew Koneschusky, former spokesperson for Senator Chuck Schumer, the chief of the Democrat minority in the Senate.
Another consequence of this situation: the publication of the monthly employment report in September did not take place on Friday, which deprives the first world economy of a major thermometer.
A crisis that should last
Senate leaders said they did not intend to sit over the weekend and many analysts believe that the crisis should last.
Republicans offer a simple extension of the current budget until the end of November, when Democrats require the extension of public health insurance programs for the most disadvantaged, denouncing clear cuts in health expenses decided by the Trump administration.
Eight Democrats to convince
The “Shutdowns” are very unpopular in the United States and the presidential camp hopes that a sufficient number of Democratic senators will eventually vote in favor of its text. “We hope that during the weekend, they will have the opportunity to think,” said the Republican leader of the Senate John Thune.
Majority in the Senate, the Republicans must convince eight democrats to cross the bar of 60 votes necessary for the adoption of the budget. Only three joined them during the last votes
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