Government shutdown expected to drag into at least next week
Washington – The US government’s closure entered its third day Friday without resolution in sight.
Republican leaders argue that they will not negotiate and that Democrats must accept the GOP’s short -term bill, which would reopen the government and buy time for discussions on a broader government funding set.
“They took the federal government hostage and, by extension, the American people, who are the only losers,” said the head of the majority of the Senate on Friday, John Thune, Rs.d., at a press conference with the president of the Chamber Mike Johnson, R-La.
“What is in the best interest of the American people is to keep the government open and operate, so that they can continue to work on their behalf,” he said.
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But the Democrats say that they will not vote for anything after the bill has been written without their contribution. They feel validated after four recent national polls show the Americans who blame President Donald Trump and the Republicans more than they likely the Democrats of the closure.
“Donald Trump and the Republicans have this closure,” said Schumer on X.
There is no public sign of talks between the leaders of the two parties, while each side begins. For the fourth time after weeks, the Senate should vote in the duel of republican and democrats bills to finance the government. It takes 60 votes to adopt one or the other of the invoices.
Thune said that the Senate would not be in session this weekend and that the senators will return to Washington on Monday, when room legislators plan to return from a two-week recreation.
This means that the closure will take place at least next week. If the government is still closed on Monday, this closure will be the longest in American history, according to an analysis of NBC News.
The democratic bill would reopen the government until October 31, while extending the expiration of subsidies to Obamacare and repealing Trump’s Medicaid cups, among other changes. It has no GOP support.
“It is the third day of Trump’s closure because Donald Trump and the Republicans insist on increasing the premiums of American health care and launching millions of people from their insurance,” Schumer said in the Senate on Friday.
Thune said on Friday that he could not agree to extend the improved Obamacare tax credits, which were promulgated for the first time in 2021 during the cocovio pandemic.
“We cannot make commitments or promises on comfortable subsidies because it is not something that we can guarantee that there are votes to make,” said Thune. “But what I said is that I am open to conversations with our Democratic colleagues on how to solve this problem. But that cannot happen while the government is closed.”
Johnson did not commit himself to extend the money from the ACA.
“The Republicans are committed to continuing the work we have already done and to demonstrate to reduce costs and improve the quality of care,” he said. “We are committed to that and we will do everything you need to get there.”
The republican financing bill, which has already adopted the Chamber, would reopen the government until November 21 without the provisions of health care privileged by the Democrats. In the last votes of the Senate, only three members of the Democratic Caucus voted with the Republicans to advance this GOP bill: meaning. John Fetterman, d-pa.; Angus King, I-Maine; And Catherine Cortez Masto, D-NEV.
The Republicans are trying to put pressure on other moderate or withdrawn democrats to join this trio. The GOP only needs five other democratic votes to postpone a bilibrical obligation and advance the financing bill.
“Everything you need … it’s one more handful. We get four, five more votes and we can pass this thing, and there are discussions in progress with our colleagues on both sides of the aisle,” said Thune. “But at some point, they must take yes as an answer.”
Julie Tsirkin contributed.
