Baghdad – IA
Democratic US Senate President Chuck Schumer announced on Wednesday that the Senate may vote on a temporary budget bill that must then be approved in the House of Representatives before Friday if the United States wants to avoid paralyzing federal state services.
Republicans widely support this text, which extends the current budget until December 3rd, and is therefore expected to be approved by the Senate.
Schumer said during a Senate meeting, “The Senate may take a decision to address this issue of concern that requires immediate attention from this chamber: financing the federal government beyond September 30,” the end of the American fiscal year.
No date has been set for voting yet.
This bill will also include assistance to states hit by natural disasters, in addition to funds to help Afghan refugees settle in the United States.
Parliamentarians have until midnight on Thursday to approve a new financial law, otherwise funding for federal services will be cut off.
Government paralysis will include ministries, national parks, some museums, and a large number of agencies, which will push hundreds of thousands of employees into partial unemployment.
Schumer pointed out that “the last thing Americans need now is government paralysis.”
This text is supposed to be the easiest to adopt in Congress. But Senate Republicans blocked an earlier version on Monday because it included suspending the US debt ceiling until December 2022.
Republicans refuse to give the green light to this measure, which they say would be tantamount to giving a blank check to Joe Biden, and they urged Democrats to approve it on their own through an arduous parliamentary maneuver.
But Schumer warned that this path would be “risky” and called on the opposition to overcome obstacles.
Yesterday, Tuesday, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen suggested that her department would exhaust the necessary measures to continue financing the government on October 18, and that the funding would run out unless Congress raised the federal borrowing ceiling.
2024-02-05 12:48:43