(Washington) Donald Trump urged Democrats on Monday to give up their positions in order to avoid the paralysis of the federal state, when negotiations between the two camps are deadlocked before the deadline of Tuesday evening.
The American president received the main republican officials and Democrats in the congress in the White House in the afternoon, for discussions that are not announced under the augurs of cordiality.
The chief of the Democrat minority in the American Senate, Chuck Schumer, said that he remained “vast differences” with the Republicans to avoid the paralysis of the federal state before the deadline.
“We made the president a few proposals (…) Ultimately, it is he who will make the decisions,” said Chuck Schumer. His counterpart in the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, added that “considerable and significant differences” remained between the two camps to avoid a “Shutdown”.
US vice-president JD Vance said the United States was heading for a federal state paralysis, after the failure of negotiations with the democratic opposition and while the deadline on Tuesday evening is inexorably approaches.
At the end of a meeting at the White House between Donald Trump and Democratic leaders at the Congress, the N.2 of the American executive denounced before the press the fact that according to him the Democrats put “a pistol on the temple of the Americans” with their requests to avoid a “Shutdown”.
Even before the meeting, Donald Trump had set up the Democrats, saying that they were going to “have to do some things, because their ideas are not very good”.
These ideas “are very bad for our country, so we will see how it will take place,” he added before the press, alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu.
At midnight in the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, without adoption of a even temporary budgetary text, the United States will be in a situation of “Shutdown”, with the consequence of the arrest of most federal services.
Hundreds of thousands of civil servants will then be unemployed, air traffic could be affected, while the payment of many social aids should be strongly disrupted.
A very unpopular situation therefore, that Democrats as Republicans traditionally try to avoid while rejecting responsibility on the rival camp. All the more in the perspective of the mid-term legislative elections in November 2026, during which the presidential majority in the congress will be called into question.
Entrenchments
Less than 48 hours from the deadline, each camp however in their entrenchments.
On the one hand, the Republicans offer an extension of the current budget until the end of November. On the other hand, Democrats want to obtain the recovery of hundreds of billions of dollars in health expenditure, especially in the “Obamacare” health insurance program for households in the popular classes, which the Trump administration has planned to eliminate with its “large and beautiful budgetary law” adopted in July.
If the Republicans have the majority to the two chambers of the congress, the Senate regulations make that a budgetary text should be adopted in 60 votes out of 100, therefore requiring seven democratic votes.
