The White House says that the mass dismissal of federal workers in the United States will begin within two days, since lawmakers trade for the first closure of the government in almost seven years.
The closure began on Wednesday after the Republicans and Democrats in the Congress could not agree with the new expenses before the midnight.
There is a small sign that both sides are ready to compromise, and voting to finish the shutdown, it was not possible only a few hours after the start.
Since then, the Senate has postponed, causing fears that the closure could delay and threaten hundreds of thousands of jobs, as well as the risk, the cost of the US economy in billions in lost production.
At a briefing in the White House on Wednesday afternoon, the Vice President of JD Vance appeared along with spokesman Caroline Lithvt and accused the Democrats of the game of political games.
“If they are so concerned about what influence this has on the American people, and they should be what they should do, it is to open the government, and not complain about how we answer,” he said.
Livitt, meanwhile, said that mass reduction of work will occur within two days. “Sometimes you need to do what you do not want to do,” she said, adding that “Democrats put us in this position.”
This was the last excavation that was a bitter game between both sides, when the leading democrat of Senate Chuck Schumer had previously accused the Republicans of trying to “intimidate” the democrats of accepting his financing plan.
Democrats want to provide guarantees for healthcare financing before they agree to expenses, while Republicans want to use a temporary stop to keep the government open until mid -November and financed at the current levels.
Democrats said that they allowed the government to close, trying to agree on the salvation of medical benefits for Americans with a low income. They stated that the efforts of negotiations with the Republicans against these manuals have not yet been successful.
“Why do they boycott negotiations? I have never witnessed this in my life, ”said Republican Senator Chris Murphy, a democrat from Connecticut. “The fact is that the government will open when the Republicans are serious about this, talking with the Democrats.”
Meanwhile, the Republicans who control both chambers of the Congress, but do not have 60 votes necessary for the adoption of the funding bill, said that these medical benefits are not a priority, leaving the government open.
“This is not about who wins or who loses or who accuses, and all this,” said the leader of the majority in the Senate John Tong. “We are talking about the American people. [Democrats] They took the American people hostage in the way they consider them politically. “
Republicans also argue that they are looking for democrats who are looking for health extensions will cost American taxpayers more money and have been established to manage the difficulties of the cycle era, which no longer exists.
The main employees, such as border agents and military, can be forced to work without payment of time – but civil servants believe that insignificant are temporarily placed on unpaid leave. In the past, these employees then paid retrospectively.
Analysts expect this closure will be more than in the latter in 2018, when Congress accepted some financing accounts. They expect about 40% of federal workers – about 750,000 people – will be placed on temporary vacation.
Some employees were pulled out on Wednesday. But the Trump administration also threatened the constant dismissals of federal workers.
“Let's be honest if this thing is delayed,” Vance said during a briefing on Wednesday, “we will have to lay off people.”
Vance also stated – repeatedly denied democrats – that closing is the result of the fact that senior democrats advocate that healthcare benefits are extended to unregistered migrants.
The US Law has already prohibited undocumented migrants to receive any federal subsidized medical coatings. “Nowhere are the Democrats suggested that we are interested in changing the federal law,” said the leader of the minority of the House of Representatives Hakim Jeffris.
Russell Viud, the head of the White House budget, informed the Republicans behind closed doors about how impending dismissals may look, although public details of these plans are rare.
On the Capitol Hill there was a small appetite for the transaction to finish the confrontation on Wednesday.
“There is nothing to negotiate. We cannot get anything out of this bill to make it more slender or cleaner than it, ”said the speaker of the House of Representatives of Mike Johnson.
On Friday, another vote on a short -term funding bill proposed by the Republicans is expected.
With additional reports from Bern Debusmann, Jr.
