The United States House of Representatives has failed to approve the new Republican Party proposal backed by President-elect Donald Trump to avoid a government shutdown, after sinking a bipartisan agreement the day before, while the date approaches. funding deadline: this friday night.
The vote resulted in 174 votes in favor and 235 against, falling below the two-thirds threshold necessary for approval. It should be noted that almost 40 Republicans have positioned themselves against the proposal and at least two Democrats have voted in favor, as reported by the American television network CNN.
This bill has failed because Democrats and several Republicans have shown their rejection of the last-minute inclusion presented by the Speaker of the House, Republican Mike Johnson, on a two-year suspension of the debt limit, a demand made by Trump. .
The recently voted text sought to keep the Government funded until March 14, also allocating some 100 billion dollars (96.5 billion euros) in disaster aid and another 10 billion dollars (9.65 billion euros) for economic aid to farmers. .
Given this, Trump had asked for the favorable vote of Republicans and Democrats, considering that it was a “success” that would “provide relief to those who were severely affected by the devastating hurricanes” and that it would add “a very important and vital piece” to “make America great again, very quickly, which is what the people ordered us to achieve.”
However, with the refusal of the legislators, the vice president-elect, JD. Vance has blamed Democrats for failing to prevent a government shutdown, arguing that they are trying to prevent the president-elect from “having influence in the negotiations” during his first year of the new term, which will begin on January 20. However, he has not made reference to the Republicans who have voted against the bill.
The White House, for its part, has denounced through its spokesperson, Karine Jean-Pierre, that “Republicans are following the orders of their billionaire benefactors at the expense of hard-working Americans” and “are breaking their word to support a bipartisan agreement.”
“They are introducing a bill that paves the way for tax breaks for billionaires while cutting critical programs that working families count on,” he lamented. Jean-Pierre has defended that the president, Joe Biden, “supports the bipartisan agreement to keep the government open, help communities recovering from disasters and reduce costs, not this gift to billionaires that Republicans are proposing in the last moment.”
The day before, Trump and Vance criticized the spending proposal agreed upon by US congressional leaders, claiming it was “the dumbest and most inept thing” Republicans had ever done.
