The US senators for the fourth time could not pass proposals for expenses to reopen the federal government, extending the ongoing disconnection for the next week.
Two separate proposals for expenses – one from the Democrats and one from the Republicans – could not reach the required threshold of 60 votes.
On both sides, at a dead end, the White House on Friday said that he would remain with the “unenviable task” of mass layouts in order to maintain basic public services if the stop continues that the spokesman Caroline Lithvit called “fiscal sanity”.
The coverage of these potential dismissals remains unclear, but the White House was held in discussions with the Office of Management and the Budget or OMB.
Both republican and democratic lawmakers dug up on the main point of disagreement: healthcare. Democrats hoped to benefit from the impasse in order to provide subsidies for medical insurance for people with a low level of income, did not expire and turn the duration of the Trump administration to the Medicaid medical care program.
Republicans, for their part, repeatedly accused the Democrats of closing the government of trying to provide health care for unregistered immigrants – The accusation that democratic leaders denied.
In total, the 54 senators voted for the proposal under the leadership of the Republicans on the financing of the government, and 44 against and two did not vote.
A separate proposal, led by the Democrats, also failed, and 45 votes for the fact that they were 52 against.
Both sides continued to blame the other of closing, with a small sign of some kind of progress in negotiations.
“We can vote, vote and vote,” said BBC senator, republican Missouri Josh Hawley. “But these are mainly five people.”
During a briefing in the news in the White House, the press secretary Carolin Livitt accused the democrats of holding the Americans “hostage from their demands.”
“The economic consequences of this closure accumulate every day,” she added, noting that $ 15 billion (11.1 billion pounds) in GDP can be lost every week as unemployment grows.
The White House officials have repeatedly promised to dismiss federal workers if the stop continued, and at the beginning of this week, President Donald Trump said that he would meet with the resettlement of an omb to study which of many democratic agencies should be reduced.
The White House did not provide any opportunities or deadlines for any potential dismissal or abbreviations for agencies. Livitt said that most of these abbreviations would come from agencies that “do not correspond to the values of this administration to put our country in the first place.”
As part of the response of the federal government to close, Vought on Friday announced the suspension of 2.1 billion dollars. The United States in federal financing of infrastructure for Chicago, in addition to the previous freezing of 18 billion dollars. The United States for infrastructure expenses in New York and the abolition of approximately 8 billion dollars. USA for federal energy projects in some democratic states.
On the floor in the Senate, the leader of the minority Chuck Schumer said that the Democrats are fighting the health problem, because “we know what the Americans want it.”
“And we know that many of my republican colleagues also want this,” he said. “But the inability to act would be destructive, and the Republicans know this.”
Some democrats, including the state Senator Connecticut Richard Blultkhal and Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman, said they wanted to hear directly from the president about an ongoing impasse.
Referring to the bicopartican bill on the border, which the president ultimately rejected last year, they said that they were afraid that any negotiations with the Republicans of the Senate can ultimately resist Trump.
Early polls suggested that the Americans were deeply divided when closing, when one Washington Post survey was carried out on October 1, having discovered that 47% of adults in the United States accuse the Republicans, compared with 30% who accuse the Democrats.
Another 23% said they were not sure.
(With additional messages from Cai Pigliucci on the Capitol Hill)
