2024-03-22 18:19:32
The Senate must quickly vote on the federal budget before the shutdown. Angered by his vote in the House, Trumpist elected officials launched a motion against his president.
The American Congress has until midnight to vote on the federal budget, failing which certain public administrations in the country will have to close. To avoid this shutdown, the House of Representatives snatched this Friday afternoon a vote on a budget of 1.200 billion dollars.
This 1,012-page text presented Thursday is the result of very acrimonious negotiations. It provides hundreds of millions of dollars for support Taiwan in the face of Chinese expansionism, but does not include no budget for Ukrainethe Republican President of the House Mike Johnson refusing to put to a vote this aid criticized by the most conservative elected officials.
“Let’s finish the work today. Let’s even avoid a weekend shutdown.”
The text also prohibits any direct financing to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), accused by Israel of having among its employees people involved in the attack carried out by Hamas on October 7. This measure is strongly criticized by the left wing of the Democratic Partyto the point that a progressive elected official has already announced that she would not vote for the budget because of this point.
Under pressure from Republicans, the budget also provides for several measures to combat immigration, notably hiring tens of thousands of border police agents. We also find a litany of points not always linked to the budget, such as a ban on flying the rainbow flagflag of the LGBT+ community, above American embassies.
Towards a new implosion of the Republican Party?
So many measures intended guarantee the Republican vote in the Senate. “Let’s finish the job today. Let’s even avoid a weekend shutdown. Let’s finish funding the government for the rest of the fiscal year. There is no reason to delay things.“, urged the President of the Senate, Democrat Chuck Schumer.
Except that the most conservative elected officials could be tempted to demand debates on certain amendments, and let the shutdown begin to negotiate budget cuts or other measures on immigration. Especially since the Trumpist fringe of the Republican Party remains up in arms against the Democratic budget project.
The very right-handed Marjorie Taylor Greenerepresentative of the State of Georgia and close to former President Donald Trump, announced that she had filed a motion to impeach the speaker of the House. According to her, the vote on the budget despite the opposition of Trumpists amounts to “betrayal”.
“This is more of a warning than a termination letter.”
To avoid a new implosion of the party, Majorie Taylor Greene specifies that she does not want an immediate vote. “It’s more than one warning than a letter of dismissal,” she told reporters.
The Democrats, for their part, could take advantage of these dissensions to put the support for Ukraine. According to Politico, some representatives assured that they would vote against the dismissal of Mike Johnson if he agreed to submit to a vote a budget intended to help kyiv militarily and economically.
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