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The abacus crackling, the two parties can't agree, the US government enters the countdown to shutdown

At 12 midnight Eastern Time on September 29th, that is, 12 noon Beijing time on the 30th, there are only the last 24 hours left before the US federal government funds are completely exhausted.

In order to avoid a federal government shutdown, President Trump met with Congressional leaders at the White House on the evening of the 29th to discuss the provisional allocation bill. The talks were seen as the last chance for the two parties to settle their differences and reach a budget consensus before the deadline for the federal government shutdown on the 1st of October.

U.S. Vice President Wences: I think we are moving toward a halt

Vice-President of the United States, Republican Wences

At the end of the talks on the evening of the 29th, U.S. Vice President and Republican Mr. Watson said: "I think we are moving toward a halt."Vance also revealed a major difference between the two sides, that is, health insurance policiesWans said that “America’s health care policy has collapsed” and that the Republicans have been trying to solve the problem over the past eight months of their rule.

Democrats, including Senate minority leader Schumer and House minority leader Jeffries, have said that there are huge differences in health policy between democracy and the Republican parties and have shown no regression.

U.S. Vice President, Republican Wallace (right 1) and House Speaker, Republican Mike Johnson (left 2)

Mike Johnson, the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and a Republican, has begun to let out the news, blaming the Democratic Party for the possible shutdown of the federal government. Johnson said that Democrats are introducing "irrelevant issues" when they mention health care at this time, and if the government shuts down, then "the responsibility lies with the Democratic Party".

The Democratic Party explicitly refuses to “patch”

There is only one chance for the government to stop.

Earlier, the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed the temporary appropriation bill drafted by the Republican Party, trying to maintain the federal government's operating funds until late November. But then the Senate failed to pass the bill. The two parties in the United States have once again reached a deadlock over funding. Democrats seek negotiations, while Republicans hope to continue to push this version of the bill passed by the House of Representatives.

Democrats have criticized the Republican's provisional funding bill for ignoring health insurance priorities and have proposed their own funding extension plan that will keep the government operational until October 31. The plan also includes a number of policies that Democrats have been seeking, priorities including the extension of the Obama Medicine Reform subsidy, which expires at the end of this year, and the withdrawal of medical subsidy cuts in the newly passed bill this year.

The provisional appropriation bill drafted by the Republican Party does not cover other policy priorities except providing additional security funds for multiple government departments. After the meeting between the leaders of the two parties on the evening of the 29th, Schumer, the minority leader of the US Senate and a Democrat, made it clear that he would not provide short-term temporary funding to avoid government shutdown support and would not accept this "patching" method.

According to Republican Senator Kevin Kramer of North Dakota, Republicans are not afraid of government shutdowns, and I feel that if the government shutdowns, it will be short-lived.”“I don’t even think Chuck Schumer can hold on for a long time,” Clemer said, “According to U.S. media, the Republican Party should be planning to repeatedly vote on the deferred funding bill during the government shutdowns, while exploiting the public’s protests over the government shutdowns to eventually force Democrats to accept the Republican version of the bill.

The U.S. Senate is expected to hold a final round of voting on the House-approved Government Allocation Delay Act on September 30th, hours before the government funds are exhausted. If anyone is willing to compromise at the last moment, the U.S. Senate vote on September 30th will be their last chance to avoid the U.S. government’s shutdown.

30th voting point: Can the number of Democratic MPs "down" break 7

Currently, although the Republicans control Congress and the White House, according to the Senate rules, they need at least 60 votes to pass the spending bill. The Republicans have 53 seats in the Senate, which means that if the U.S. government does not close, they must persuade at least seven Democrats to "drop Go".

Thro the years, both Democracy and Republican parties insisted on their respective positions and believed that the other party would “bear” the consequences of the government’s “closure” and bear responsibility to the American public.

In a program broadcast on the 28th, Senate majority leader, Republican John Thun, insisted that “whether the government shut down depends entirely on the Democrats,” while Senate minority party leader, Democrat Schumer, said in the same program that whether the Republicans are willing to negotiate “is up to them,” “but hopefully the Republicans won’t let the government shut down.”

Trump previously tweeted on social media that he had cancelled the meeting after “examining the details of the Democratic party’s unserious and absurd demands,” but later agreed to meet with four congressional leaders before the final vote.

The U.S. government has been closed 20 times in half a century.

The last time was also during Trump's tenure

Since the 1970s, the U.S. federal government has been "shut down" more than 20 times due to the policy differences between the Republican and * parties, which led to the interruption of funding. The last and longest "shutdown" occurred during Trump's first presidential term. At that time, about a quarter of the federal government agencies were "closed" for five weeks, affecting more than 800,000 government employees, and the economic loss was estimated to exceed $10 billion.

During the 2013 administration of former President Obama, some conservative Republican lawmakers blocked the Obama Medical Reform Act, leading to a government “stop” for 16 days. Hundreds of thousands of federal government employees were forced to shut down at home, national parks, national monuments and monuments across the United States and federal-backed museums were forced to shut down, and public services such as the private sector applied for government loans were also forced to be postponed.

During the reign of former US President Clinton, the federal government twice “stopped” and approximately 28,000 government officials were forced off.

During George H.W. Bush's administration, some agencies of the US federal government also stopped operating in October 1990. At that time, George H.W. Bush, a Republican, reached an agreement with Democrats in Congress to raise the tax rate to reduce the government deficit, but this decision was opposed by some Republicans in Congress, so that the budget bill for the new fiscal year failed to be passed.



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