In a time of discount, as often happens in each and every one of the US, the Senate has approved this Friday a temporary plan to keep the administration afloat until September 30, thus avoiding the so -called closure of it, which among other consequences would deprive of its salary the federal employees or their pensions to the beneficiaries of social security.
After its approval by the House of Representatives, on Tuesday, the bill needed 60 votes in its processing in the Upper House to overcome filibusterism, or parliamentary, Democratic obstruction, which was equivalent to at least eight Democrats voting in favor. In the end there were ten favorable in a vote of crucial procedure, which determined whether the law advanced or fell, after the leader of the minority in the Senate, the veteran and influential Chuck Schumer, convinced the undecided, which has held a result of 62 votes in favor and 28 against.
The final vote, previously surpassed the threshold of the 60s, showed a result of 54 (the Republicans have 53 seats) to 46. Senator Rand Paul, of Kentucky, was the only Republican who voted against. The initiative must now be signed by President Donald Trump.
But the few democratic support, including the popular senator John Fetterman, leaves the party very touched. Schumer’s call to his co -religionists to vote in favor of, has caused a revolt among the most progressive members of the party. The representative by New York Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez described the support for the Republicans of “huge slaps in the face” and assured that there is a “deep feeling of indignation and betrayal” throughout the party.
On the contrary, Schumer’s predisposition to avoid a closure of the administration earned him Trump’s praise. “He has thrown guts and courage,” the president wrote on his social network on Friday morning. In a speech to the Department of Justice early in the afternoon, the president said he feels “great respect” for what Schumer did, adding that he could barely give credit to his gesture. “But he has done the right thing, I think he will receive some credit for it.”
During the final process, the Democrats proposed four amendments to the draft, all of them around the controversial government efficiency department (Doge, in its English acronym), directed by Elon Musk. One advocated its closure, and the others, the reinstatement of the veterans fired from their federal jobs by the Trump administration – that is, for the Doge – and codify the cuts of the aforementioned department to foreign aid.
The decision of the Democrats on the Temporary Law of Expenditure constituted its first state -relief political asset after the defeat at the polls in November, when the Republicans achieved not only the presidency, but also the control of the two cameras. The Democrats did not see in good eyes this bill, written without their participation, considering that the only two options – to close or vote against the bill and provoke it – were terrible. But the pragmatic support of Schumer gave coverage to the undecided, as well as throwing material to those who consider it a capitulation that opens a deep wound in the formation.
At the beginning of the week, the main democrats of the House of Representatives, including the minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, undertook a fierce demolition operation of the bill, finally losing only one of its members in the vote. But the attempt was not enough to sink the project ,. Jeffries avoid responding this Friday when asked if he had lost confidence in Schumer. “Next question,” Lanjónico settled before journalists.
Outside the surroundings of Schumer, which represents the establishment White, masculine and advanced nuclear age of the party, many Senate Democrats, as well as those of the Chamber, are furious with their movement, who see how to have voluntarily and consciously lost the first real point of real influence that the game could have pointed out in Trump’s second mandate.
