To end the after the bipartisan agreement of members of the Senate to extend the funding of the federal state. The goal until January 30 is to end the fiscal paralysis that has suspended a series of public services for 40 days – – American media reports.
Republican and some Democratic senators have struck a tentative deal that would guarantee funding for the federal government through January, according to CNN and Fox News reports, and a vote is expected overnight. However, it is not clear at this stage whether the agreement will also be approved by the House of Representatives, as required, noted the first network.
Trump: We are nearing the end of the shutdown
“We’d say we’re nearing the end of the shutdown,” the Republican president told reporters on his return to the White House after spending the weekend at his Mar-a-Lago, Florida, home.
The agreement must be approved by both houses of the federal Congress and signed by President Trump.
According to a source familiar with the talks, the deal also includes a commitment to a vote in December on a new bill for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – the health care reform that remains a point of intense political contention.
However, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer clarified that the deal does not provide for an extension of health and care aid directly but a vote on it, stressing that he “will vote no” and saying that “this battle must continue and will continue” from the floor.
Cancellation of layoffs
The deal also calls for the reversal of thousands of job cuts the Trump administration took last month and a vote to extend government aid for Social Security and Medicare programs that expire at the end of the year.
The proposal “would protect federal public employees from unfair dismissals, reinstate those wrongfully fired during the shutdown, and guarantee that employees will receive back pay,” Sen. Tim Kaine, a Democrat, said in a statement.
Hundreds of thousands of federal public workers have been out of a job or are working without pay since the shutdown began on Oct. 1, causing severe disruptions to social security payments and air travel.
Additionally, according to lawmakers, the Senate deal would allow SNAP, the food assistance program that benefits 42 million Americans, to be refinanced. The payment of the amounts was prevented due to the fiscal paralysis.
