Washington – Washington is attacking a government closure on Tuesday night, with few signs of a ramp outside the ramp as Democrats and Republicans look for a fight for government spending.
Democratic leadership in Capitol Hill insists on an extension of the fiscal credits of the Law on Low Price Health Care as part of a package to finance the Government. At least seven democratic votes are needed in the Senate to approve a seven -week stop bill that cleared the camera last week.
But Republican and White House legislators have dismissed the proposal, with senior officials of the Trump administration threatening to use unique legal authorities granted during a government closure to make more massive shots of federal workers.
The bipartisan leadership of Congress met with President Trump in the White House on Monday afternoon in a last minute effort to avoid the crisis. But none of the parties left the meeting with expectations of an advance. On the contrary, the Republican leaders in the Chamber told the Republican Caucus that they plan to return to work next week and said they would hold a press conference on Wednesday anticipating the closure of the government.
“We are not going to support a party of partisan republican spending law that continues to destroy the medical attention of everyday Americans, period, complete stop,” said the leader of the minority of the House of Representatives on Monday, Hakeem Jeffries (Dn.y.).
The leader of the minority of the Hakeem Jeffries representatives and the senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, speak with journalists outside the White House.
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Vice President JD Vance said he thought that the country was “heading to a closure”, labeling the so -called democrats to tax credits for medical care a “absurd” demand that is equivalent to an “excuse to close the government of the people.”
“It does not use the disagreements of your policy as leverage so as not to pay our troops,” Vance said. “That is exactly what they are proposing.”
When the government closes, the law requires that all non -essential government services cease, which requires that most federal workers will leave or work without pay. Essential services, such as national security functions and air traffic control, are not affected.
Before the meeting, Trump told journalists that he expected the Democrats to agree on “maintain our open country”, before proceeding to criticize their proposals.
“They will have to do some things, because their ideas are not very good,” Trump said. “They are very bad for our country. So we will see how that works.”
But the senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer (Dn.y.) said he thought his message began to resonate with the president after his meeting on Monday afternoon.
“We have very large differences, in medical care and in its ability to undo the budget we accept, through termination and reservoir,” said Schumer. “I think for the first time, the president heard our objections and heard why we needed a bipartisan bill. His bill does not have an apex of democratic contributions. This is how we have never done this before.”
“We have made the President some proposals,” Schumer added. “Ultimately, he is a decision maker.”
Schumer faced a generalized ridiculous of his party in March after reversing the course during the last confrontation, then choosing the continuous resolution of the Trump administration to finance the government in the height of an aggressive purge of the Federal Labor Force.
At that time, Schumer feared that a closure could accelerate the shots. But Schumer is now challenging, despite the renewed threat of layoffs, after the White House Administration and Budget Office distributed a memorandum last week, ordering federal agencies to relieve workers in discretionary projects that lose funds after October 1.
“This is an attempt to intimidate,” said Schumer in response to the Memo. “Donald Trump has been dismissing federal workers since the first day, not to govern, but to scare. This is nothing new and has nothing to do with financing the government.”
Vice President JD Vance speaks with journalists as the president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, and the leader of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, listens.
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Even so, Schumer began to measure his Caucus on Monday afternoon on the prospects of a continuous resolution that would in effect delay a closure for a week, briefly extending government funds to continue negotiations.
The betting markets had a chance that a closure would rise above 70% at the end of Monday.
Speaking on Monday about “Fox & Friends”, Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said the president's post was “the reasonable and common sense”, asking the Democrats to continue financing the military and their veterans.
“All we ask is a clean and common financing resolution, a continuous resolution, to maintain the open government,” said Leavitt. “This is a bill that keeps the government financed at the same exact levels as today, simply adjusted by inflation.”
“So there are zero good reasons for Democrats to vote against this,” he added. “The president is giving the Democratic leadership a last chance to be reasonable.”
But Jeffries ruled out Leavitt as “divorced from reality” in a podcast interview.
“In which world will any rational American conclude, after being conferences throughout the year about this so -called mandate that the Republican party has in this country and its complete control of the government in Washington, which because the Democrats are not willing to gut the health of the US people as part of the crisis of republican health, which is reducing us to the government?” Jeffries said.
“No one is buying that,” he continued, “outside the parts of the Maga base that basically, apparently, will buy anything Donald Trump has to sell.”
The leader of the majority of the Senate, John Thune (RS.D.) said he would call a vote on government financing on Tuesday afternoon.
“This is purely and simply take hostages,” Thune said on Monday. If it happens or fails, he said, he is “the Democrats.”
