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The Senate Democrats ruled supporting a Republican Stop-Gap Fund, which brings the US one step closer to a federal federal government.
Republicans to prevent pushing the legislation law through the House of Representative On Tuesday night To extend the fund at the current level until the end of September.
but Ematocrat Wednesday shows that they do not want to give the support required for the bill – known as a continuous resolution – to pass the Senate before the end of the current fund on Friday night.
“Government funding should be a bipartisan effort but the Republicans choose a partisan path without input from Congressional Democumts, Democratic Sedate Minority Leader on Wednesday.
If the stand-off is not resolved by midnight Friday that the government will be rescued, with all the “non-significant parks, national and food inspections. Hundreds of thousands of workers can be cold.
This is the first government closure since December 2018, if the Republicans and Democrats hit the fund for the border of the Donald Trump border in his first term as president.
The Bill house looks forward to the fund at the current level until September 30, cutting some with no defensive expenditure, as it expands to implement defense and immigration.
Democrats feared to give Trump a lot of space to minimize his agenda over the next six months and in turn suggests a monthly spending party.
With the house that shuts off unlikely the legislators of the content return before the end of the week to conceive the alternative law.
Most Republicans have 53 Senate seats up to 47 for Democrats, which means that it must secure 6 senators “SuperMajority” which must pass the law inside.
At least one Senator in the Republican – Rand Paul in Kentucky – declares that he does not vote for the house bill. A Democrat – John Fetterman in Pennsylvania – said he voted in favor.
