2023-09-29 23:21:53
Time.news – The hard line of right of the Republican Party is prevailing over the mediation of the Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy. After some timid positive signals arriving late in the morning, here’s the freezing shower. The attempt to find a compromise, postponing the deadline for guaranteeing coverage of federal funds by a month, failed in the afternoon.
Inserting spending cuts into the text and allocating funds to secure the southern borders with Mexico were not enough to reach an agreement. There are now less than two days left in which Congress must find a solution to avoid a public budget shutdown, something that has not happened since 2019, and which would lead to a freeze on salaries for millions of federal employees, including more than one million American soldiers . The representatives of the right, led by the Trumpian Matt Gaetzreiterated that they would not vote on a text that guaranteed coverage until October 31st.
I am dramatic hours in Washington. In these minutes the House Republicans have gathered in a room of the Capitol to find a solution that risks overwhelming the conservatives, accused of having put millions of people in difficulty to carry on their battle against the president of the United States Joe Biden. According to CNN, McCarthy told his staff that “there wouldn’t be many options to avoid the shutdown.”
Placing the blame on the White House appears difficult: in the latest polls two out of three Americans attribute the responsibility for the possible shutdown to conservatives. Criticism of the representatives of the hard wing came from within the party. Dusty Johnston, Republican of South Dakota, said of the twenty-one who opposed the compromise that “they will soon understand that saying no to a bill that cut spending and guaranteed safer borders will not make them more reliable in the future.” The plan, however, did not have much chance of being approved by the Senate, with a Democratic majority, precisely due to the presence of spending cuts, which affected the middle class and the weakest groups.
An agreement must be found by midnight on Saturday, which seems increasingly distant as the hours pass. According to economists interviewed by the American media, a short shutdown that freezes salaries and blocks a series of administrative services, from licensing to the opening of public parks, will not slow down the American economy significantly, enough to push it towards recession , but a longer period would have devastating effects on the accounts.
The leader of the Democrats in the House, Hakeem Jeffries, accused the Republicans of having unleashed an “internal civil war”, while the progressive leader in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, pointed the finger at the “weakness” of Speaker McCarthy, i.e. the president of Republicans in the House, and the one who should maintain control of the party, but who is coming out reduced in this which is the most important battle in which he has been involved, since he was elected in January 2021, on the fifteenth ballot, at the helm of the House .
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