(Washington) The American House of Representatives adopted a budget text on Tuesday to end more than three days of paralysis of part of the federal administration.
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The promulgation expected immediately by Donald Trump will make it possible to officially conclude this “shutdown” which has been raging since Saturday against a backdrop of dissension between Republicans and Democrats over the financing of the immigration police (ICE), after the recent events in Minneapolis.
Several Republican elected officials had threatened to vote “no”, because they categorically refuse to renegotiate the budget of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), a demand from the Democrats.
Threats which posed a risk to the passage of the text, since the Republicans could only afford a single vote against if all the Democrats also rejected the bill.
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“Without delay”
The Republican leader of the House, Mike Johnson, spent a good part of his day Monday negotiating with the refractory elected officials from his camp.
To convince them, he was able to count on strong support, with Donald Trump’s message on Monday to parliamentarians.
“We must reopen the government and I hope that all Republicans and Democrats will join me in supporting this law,” said the tenant of the White House.
He also said he wanted promulgation “without delay” to put an end to this “shutdown”, which has its origins in the recent events in Minneapolis.
Democrats are outraged by the death at the end of January of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old American nurse shot and killed by federal agents on the sidelines of demonstrations against the presence of the immigration police (ICE), which depends on the DHS, in this metropolis in the northern United States.
Her death came less than three weeks after that of Renee Good, who was also shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis.
Reforms
Since then, Democrats have hammered home their refusal to pass any budget for DHS without significant reforms to ICE being put in place.
They notably demanded the systematic use of body-worn cameras for agents, a ban on the wearing of balaclavas and even that a judicial warrant precede any arrest.
“No one is above the law. ICE agents should be held to the same rules as any other member of law enforcement in this country,” Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said at a news conference Monday at the Capitol.
Between October and November last year, the United States experienced the longest “shutdown” in its history with 43 days, during which Republicans and Democrats fought over the question of subsidies for health insurance for millions of Americans.
