federal government stoppage, which will enter its second week on Monday, still seems far from a solution
The consequences of the US government’s budgetary stoppage (the so -called ‘shutdown’) will be increasingly harmful, with the possibility of mass layoffs of civil servants, re -threatening Republican leaders and an advisor to President Donald Trump on Sunday (5). This risk has been mentioned by President Trump himself since the beginning of the budget blockade last Wednesday, whereby most republican and democratic opposition blame each other.
The federal government’s stoppage, which will enter its second week on Monday, still seems far from a solution. Since his unsuccessful meeting at the White House last Monday, the main leaders of the Congress of both the Democratic and Republican party have not met again, according to a high democratic official.
His team refuses to give in to the crucial issue of medical insurance subsidies. ”If the president believes the negotiations are not going anywhere, then the layoffs will begin,” he threatened CNN on Sunday Kevin Hassett, Donald Trump’s main economic advisor. “We hope that with a new start earlier this week we can convince Democrats that common sense is to avoid such dismissals,” he added.
The leader of the Senate Republican majority, John Thune, acknowledged, in turn, that the two parts were still dead and suggested that more American workers would suffer the consequences. “This will be uncomfortable,” he implied Fox News, while confirmed that the backstage dialogues continue on a possible extension of “Obamacare” subsidies, the health insurance program for the working class, approved during the presidency of Democrat Barack Obama.
But how long can this impasse last, unprecedented in seven years? “As much as the Democrats want,” replied Thune. In March, when the threat of a stoppage was already around the federal government, the Democrats were the first to give in, and a minority agreed to vote on a republican resolution that kept these subsidies for only six months.
“If Republicans continue to refuse to extend Obamacare’s tax exemptions,“ dozens of millions of taxpayers will be a drastic increase ”of their medical attention costs, Hakeem Jeffries, leader of the Democratic Minority in the Chamber of Representatives, told NBC.
Hundreds of thousands of “non-essential” civil servants have been suspended since Wednesday and are not receiving salary. Unless they are dismissed, his situation should be regularized at the end of this shutdown, an extremely unpopular situation that lasted 35 days during the last episode, in Donald Trump’s first term in the White House.
*With information from AFP
