(Washington) The United States is getting closer to a budgetary paralysis: the Senate rejected Friday, ten days from the deadline, a provisional budgetary text intended to distance this perspective, approved earlier in the day by the House of Representatives.
Time is running out, because it is planned that the US Congress will not sower next week due to the Jewish festival of Rosh Hachana and only resume its parliamentary work on the eve of the deadline on September 30.
Without text adopted by then, the federal state will not escape budgetary paralysis, known as “Shutdown. »»
This would mean that a large part of the federal services are said to be stopped, with hundreds of thousands of unemployed technical officials, an uploaded air traffic, but also strong disturbances in the payment of social assistance.
A first step had been taken on Friday morning with the passage of a provisional budgetary text, which relates to seven weeks until November 21, by the American Chamber of Republican majority representatives, by 217 votes for (including a Democrat) and 212 votes against (including two Republicans).
But the Senate, where a majority of 60 votes out of 100 was necessary for this text, rejected it in the afternoon. His elected officials expressed themselves in 48 votes against, including two Republicans, and 44 votes for, including a Democrat.
Democratic parliamentarians have repeated their opposition to this text, in particular on the issue of financing health spending, and criticize the Republicans for having left no room for negotiations with them.
Just before, a budgetary counterweight advanced by the democratic opposition had also not collected enough votes in the upper chamber.
Like the House of Representatives, the Senate is a majority republican but democratic voices are necessary to reach the required level of 60 votes.
Donald Trump called on his republican troops to mobilize for the adoption of this budgetary text.
“The leader of Democrats (in the Senate), the whining Chuck Schumer, wants a paralysis of the federal government. The Republicans want him to continue to work. Each elected Republican should show their unit and vote yes, ”insisted the American president on Thursday on his Truth Social platform.
In March, when the threat of “Shutdown” already hovered, the Republicans had refused to initiate dialogue with the Democrats on huge budget cuts and the dismissal of thousands of civil servants.
Ten Democratic Senators, including their boss Chuck Schumer, had then reluctantly decided to vote for the text of the Republicans, in order to avoid the paralysis of the federal state – which they did not do on Friday.
