(Washington) The US Senate again failed on Monday to end the budgetary blocking which has paralyzed part of the federal state for six days, while Donald Trump said he was ready to negotiate with the Democrats if they first raise this “Shutdown”.
As during the last vote on Friday, the text of the Republican elected officials collected only three votes of opposition senators and failed to reach the threshold of the 60 required to remove this blockage.
Each camp is striped in its positions and has been rejected the fault since the start of this budget paralysis that led to the technology of hundreds of thousands of federal officials.
In the wake of this umpteenth failure in the Senate, Donald Trump again summoned the opposition to end the blocking.
“I want to work with the Democrats on their failed health policies, or anything else, but first, they must allow the State to reopen,” said the American president on his Truth Social platform.
Screenshot of the Truth Social site
However, he had declared shortly before wanting to conclude an agreement on these health issues, the main demands of the Democrats. Negotiations “could lead to very good things,” said the 79-year-old president from the White House.
Democrat chief Hakeem Jeffries denounced him the “radio silence” of the White House, who has ceased, said, he said about the opposition officials for a week.
Pay
The American executive also continues to threaten to dismiss officials purely and simply in the event of persistent blockage.
Photo Jacquelyn Martin, Associated Press
US President Donald Trump
“Alas, if this” Shutdown “continues, layoffs will be an unhappy consequence,” warned spokesperson for the White House, Karoline Leavitt on Monday.
The more than two million federal employees are at the forefront of the people most affected by budgetary paralysis. Even if they escape the dismissal, their pay is deferred until a budget is adopted at the Congress, whether they are unemployed or not.
“It is quite possible that this” Shutdown “continues for weeks, and not only a few days,” said AFP Andrew Koneschusky, former adviser to the tenor democrat Chuck Schumer.
But for Michael Strain, an economist at the American Enterprise Institute conservative reflection center, it is “inconceivable” that blocking lasts several months.
He cites in particular the absence of a balance for the military-in a country where they have a special place in the minds of the general public-as a major element of the political pressure that elected officials will suffer to get out of the crisis.
Maximum suffering
At his sixth day on Monday, the current “Shutdown” is still far from the record. Between December 2018 and January 2019, already under Donald Trump, the previous blocking had lasted 35 days.
However, the Republican President, who has frozen infrastructure projects in democratic states in recent days, today applies a “maximum suffering” strategy to the opposition, under the terms of certain observers.
The intransigence of the Republican president is a major reason to believe that the record of duration can fall, explains James Druckman, professor of political science at the University of Rochester.
“The Trump administration considers that it has a mandate without control, and therefore does not generally lend itself to compromise,” he said to AFP.
For their part, “the Democrats were criticized for not having fought in a sufficiently strong way” against Donald Trump, the professor recalls.
In March ten Democratic senators had reluctantly voted for a republican text in order to avoid federal paralysis. Their choice had provoked the anger of many militants and sympathizers democrats, who accused them of folding against the president.
Ultimately, this “compromise did not produce any positive effect for democrats”, analyzes James Druckman. So this time, “they are more likely to hold on”.
