US government is in danger of shutting down, again

A US authorities shutdown is looming ample aft a backing bundle pushed by Republican House talker Mike Johnson was changeable down.

It comes aft Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for the US statesmanlike election, called for a authorities shutdown if authorities was not passed to people noncitizen voting.

Mr Trump had urged Republicans to termination disconnected immoderate continuing resolution, an appropriation measure for authorities departments, if his demands were not met.

“If Republicans don’t get the SAVE Act, and each ounce of it, they should not hold to a Continuing Resolution successful immoderate way, shape, oregon form,” Mr Trump wrote connected societal media earlier the latest vote.

In the end, the backing extension, which would person lasted until March 2025 did not pass, making a authorities shutdown adjacent much likely, with funds expected to adust up by the extremity of September.

The measure was slapped down 220-202, with 14 House Republicans opposing the bundle and 3 Democrats voting successful favour.

It’s the latest successful the crippled of feline and rodent that Republicans and Democrats person been playing for years implicit authorities funding, which astatine times has led to achy and costly shutdowns.

Congress needs a stopgap measure known arsenic a continuing solution to support the authorities moving past November’s statesmanlike election, but the parties are obscurity adjacent statement connected a full-year budget.

The six-month hold projected connected Wednesday would person punted the shutdown deadline into March, erstwhile the adjacent president would already beryllium successful the Oval Office.

The draught besides included the SAVE Act, a Trump-backed measurement that requires impervious of citizenship erstwhile registering to ballot successful national elections.

But President Joe Biden’s administration, disquieted astir eligible voters being blocked from elector rolls oregon different deterred, opposes the act.

It noted that noncitizen voting is already amerciable and that determination is nary grounds it happens.

A authorities shutdown would spot the closure of national agencies and nationalist parks, limiting nationalist services and furloughing millions of workers without wage conscionable weeks earlier the election.

Mr Trump, who holds sway implicit galore House Republicans, continues to assertion falsely that helium was cheated by elector fraud successful the 2020 election.

He lobbied Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson to adhd the predetermination measurement to the backing package.

Mr Johnson called disconnected a ballot connected the backing program past week arsenic it became progressively wide however unpopular it was with members of his party.

In a connection connected Wednesday, House Appropriations Committee ranking subordinate Rosa DeLauro said: “Once again, the House Republican bulk has failed astatine its astir basal tasks.” “We person 7 legislative days to support the authorities open,” Ms DeLauro added.

- with AFP