Washington (AP) – party leaders in the Congress for a long time criticized the government’s disconnection as toxic and destructive.
“Always a bad idea,” said the former leader of the majority in the Senate Mitch MacConnell, R-Ky.
“I do not think that shutdown is beneficial to someone, that is the least of all the American people,” said John Tong, the leader of the majority in the Senate, last week.
Nevertheless, Congress often finds it on the verge of one, since the differences in the two main political parties grow more insoluble every year. Democrats threaten to vote against maintaining the government open on October 1.
Schumer and leader of the Democratic Party Hakim Jeffris, DN. Yu., They say that they will not budge if the Republicans will immediately last subsidies for healthcare, which expire at the end of the year, among other requirements. Republicans say that they do not want to add some kind of difficult policy to their “pure” stop on a stop in order to keep the government open over the next seven weeks.
Again and again, the lawmakers are held until the deadline and do not agree on a compromise in the last minute. But this time, democrats see some potential political advantages from closing with basic voters spoiled for struggle.
History shows that tactics almost never works, and federal employees fall into the middle. The White House has already set out a plan to potentially dismiss hundreds, if not thousands of federal employees – a significant escalation from previous closures, in which federal workers were temporarily knocked down and sent back when the confrontation ended.
Take a look at some previous shutdowns and how they ended:
December 2018-January 2019
Two years after his first term, President Donald Trump led the country to the most prolonged closure with the demands so that the Congress would give him money for the US border wall. Like the republican leaders today, the then speaker-house Nancy Pelosi, Democrat, refused to negotiate if Trump, the Republican, did not allow the government to open up. Democrats won the majority of the chamber in the 2018 elections and acquired power in the middle of a partial disconnection.
Trump retreated after 35 days, since the intensifying delays at the country's airports and another missed salary day for hundreds of thousands of federal workers brought a new urgency in efforts to resolve the confrontation.
January 2018
The government closed for three days, when the democrats insisted that any budget measure was acting with the protection of young immigrants known as “dreamers”. Trump refused to negotiate until the government opened, and the closing of the weekend ended after MacConnell, the then leader of the majority in the Senate, promised to vote on this issue.
Democrats, led by Sumer, tried to make guilt on Trump. But the Republicans said that it was the Democrats in the end “spot”.
October 2013
The labor faction of the right tea of the Republicans from the House of Representatives, called by the Republican Senator Ted Cruz from Texas, closed the government for 16 days, because they demanded that this language block the implementation of the legislation of President Barack Obama on healthcare in order to be added to the costs of expenses.
The conflict was aggravated when the Republicans from the House of Representatives also blocked the necessary approval to the meeting of the amount of money that the Treasury could take to pay for US bills, which increased the ghost of the catastrophic default. Obama, Democrat, repeatedly vowed not to pay a “ransom” in order to force the congress to accept ordinary ordinary legislation.
The two -party negotiations in the Senate finally finished the stop, and the Republicans did not win any serious concessions in healthcare. “We fought with a good battle. We just did not win, ”the then speaker John Boner admitted.
December 1995 Yanauri 1996
The intention to reduce the budget, the Republicans, led by Speaker Newt Gingrich, forced a three -week shutdown from December 1995 to January 1996 in an attempt to bring President Bill Clinton in accordance with a balanced budget agreement. The Republicans were burdened with guilt, and Clinton, a democrat, was re -elected in November.
1970s and 1980s
Under the leadership of the presidents, Jimmy Carter, Democrat and Ronald Reagan, Republican, there were short closes almost every year. The longest was in 1978, for 17 days.
A series of legal opinions issued in 1980 and 1981 made closing more effective. The then-advocate General Benjamin Tsivetti determined that the inability to accept new accounts for expenses requires that the government function completely or partially. Previously, “stops” does not always entail the actual stop for the functioning of the government, and often just financing spaces will be a little real effect.
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The writer Associated Press Matthew Daily contributed to this report.
