Government funds expire for less than a day, and their extension requires the consent of the Congress. In the opinion of the American media Shutdown, i.e. closing the work of most federal agencies, is very likely.
– I think we're heading towards Shutdow, because the democrats will not do what they need. I hope they change their minds – he told Vance journalists. He called the position of democrats “unreasonable”. “Americans will suffer because they don't want to do what they should,” he said.
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The minority leader in the Senate Chuck Schumer said that At a meeting with the president, democrat politicians raised health care issues. Democrats strive to make concessions of Republicans regarding healthcare. The leader of the minority in the lower chamber Hakeem Jeffries emphasized that the positions of democrats and republicans are still significantly different.
It would not be the first shutdown during the presidency of Trump
A spokeswoman for the White House Karoline Leavitt wrote on the website X that Trump gave Schumer and the democrats “the opportunity to agree a common sense, impartial solution, thanks to which the government would maintain financing and remain open.” She added that the Democrats “unfortunately chose party struggle and closing the government, while the time ends to score political points from their base.”
The democrats, which are in the Congress, demand from the Republicans concessions in the form of increasing expenditure on subsidies for private health insurance. However, part of the extreme republican wing, which demands more savings, demands opposite concessions. To vote in the Senate, you need voices of all 53 Republicans and at least seven democrats.
During the first term of Trump, the longest immobilization of the US government in history. It lasted 35 days from December 22, 2018 to January 25, 2019. The dispute between the president and the congress concerned the financing of the wall on the border with Mexico.
