The U.S. Senate is expected to vote on September 30 on the House of Representatives' extension of government allocations bill, which, if passed, would allow the U.S. government to continue operating for seven weeks while Congress has completed the annual spending bill, avoiding "stagnation."

According to Associated Press, U.S. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and Republican leader John Thun and two-party leaders of the House of Representatives will meet with President Trump on the matter on the 29th in the White House.

Government shutdown looms

The Republican and Democratic parties should typically pass the annual funding bill before the start of the new fiscal year on October 1. Due to the heated political struggle between the two parties in recent years and often failing to reach an agreement in time, Congress passed a short-term spending bill to temporarily maintain the federal government. Right now, although the Republicans control the Congress and the White House, according to the Senate rules, they need at least seven Democratic senators to pass the spending bill. The U.S. federal government funds will be exhausted at midnight on September 30, and if the Democratic and Republican parties do not agree, some government agencies will face a "stop".

Trump said on 28th that he would discuss the upcoming government shutdown with congressional two-party leaders on 29th, and that Democrats might hope to reach an agreement. Sources revealed that in addition to participating in the "last-minute meeting" Chuck Schumer and John Thun, House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Democratic Leader Hachim Jeffries also attended.

All along, * and the Republican parties have insisted on the stalemate of their respective positions, and both believe that the other party will "bear" the consequences of the government shutdown and take responsibility to the American public.

The Republican Party said that the Democratic Party needs to help them pass a simple government funding extension bill on the evening of 30th to avoid the government shutdown; And before the bill is passed, the Republican Party will not agree to start negotiations. The Democratic Party, on the other hand, proposed that it hoped to hold immediate consultations on medical care issues, and if concessions could not be obtained, they were willing to shut down the government.

In a National Broadcasting Company show on Monday, Twain insisted that ¡°whether the government shuts down depends entirely on the Democratic Party.¡±

Schumer also said in the same program that when the two parties met in the White House on the 29th, whether the Republicans were willing to negotiate "is up to them," "but hopefully the Republicans won't let the government stop."

Trump had previously posted on social media that he suddenly canceled the originally planned meeting with the Democratic Party after "examining the details of the Democratic Party's unserious and absurd demands".

Several major ¡°stop-ups¡± since 1990

Since the 1970s, the U.S. federal government has "stopped" twenty times because of the differences between Republican and Democratic two-party policies.

The most recent and longest ¡°stop¡± occurred during Trump¡¯s first presidential term. At the time, when the Democratic Party opposed funding for the Mexican border wall project proposed by then-President Trump, the two parties fought on immigration issues, with about a quarter of federal government agencies ¡°stop¡± for five weeks from the end of 2018 to the beginning of 2019. It is estimated that the ¡°stop¡± reached more than 800,000 government employees, with economic losses estimated at more than $10 billion.

During the 2013 administration of former President Obama, some conservative Republican lawmakers blocked the implementation of the Obama Medical Reform Bill, leading to the government's "stop" for 16 days. The government shutdown forced hundreds of thousands of federal government employees to stop work at home, National Parks, National Monuments and Monuments across the United States, and the Smithsonian Society's federal-sponsored museum, the private sector to apply for government loans and other public services were forced to be delayed, bringing great inconvenience to the American people and tourists to the United States.

During the reign of former US President Clinton, Clinton and Congressional Republicans were divided over budget issues for 21 days from December 1995 to January 1996, while Clinton hoped to increase federal spending in the fields of education, environment, healthcare and public health, with Republicans hoping to slow down federal spending growth. The federal government stopped for five days from November 14 to 19, 1995 due to failure to resolve the differences in a timely manner.

During President Bush's reign, some federal government agencies stopped operating on October 6, 1990.The reason for the "stop" was that the old Bush agreed with Congress Democrats to raise tax rates to reduce government deficits, but this decision was opposed by some Congress Republicans, so that the new fiscal year budget bill failed to be passed, and Congress interrupted funding for some federal government departments. Because the federal government "stop" time was shorter and occurred mainly on weekends, the shock to American society was less.