On Sunday, two Democratic senators said their party would not force the federal government to stop President Trump’s legally objectionable measures to eliminate federal agencies.
“We are in a crisis right now, and Democrats will use every tool to protect Americans,” said Corey Bakr, New Jersey. If the Congress does not approve a new expenditure bill until March 14, the federal government will be closed.
New Jersey’s Democrat, Senator Andy Kim, echoed Mr Bakr during an interview to the NBC. If Democrats do not provide votes for the ongoing federal financing – Mr Trump’s unilateral budget deductions, staff firing and his opposition to the reorganization of federal agencies – will be Mr Trump and Republicans who are official Will be responsible for the closure, Mr. Kim said.
“I will be the last person who wants to go to this stage,” Mr Kim said about the official closure. “But we are in a place where we are primarily in connection with the constitutional crisis.”
The closure of the government in March reflects the two Democrats indicating the limited powers that their party’s Republicans are under control of all the levers of the federal government. It also shows that the deadline of March funding to limit Mr Trump’s cleanliness in the Congress and the federal agencies set up by Congress as an important bargaining device to limit the cleaning of Mr Trump. It also shows the willingness to use.
In the past three weeks, Mr Trump has tried to close the US agency for international development. The Federal Financial Watch Dog, ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to shut down “all surveillance and examination activity”. All federal loans and grants were tried to stop. The Federal Emergency Management Agency should be closed. And prevented tens of billions of dollars of energy and environmental costs adopted by Congress.
The House has a very small majority of Republicans. Speaker Mike Johnson cannot afford to lose more than three Republican votes to approve the cost package in March, which reflects the various demands of his Caucasus.
During the last two years of the Biden administration, when the Republicans controlled the House, dozens of right -wing members of the party who wanted a deep deduction in government spending against Mr Johnson and voted against financing the federal government. They used to give Mr Johnson had to work with the Democrats to pass a bilateral spending bill, which had maintained funds at the level of previous years.
Representative Hakim Jefferiz, New York’s Democrat and House Minority Leader, said last week that he was Ready to work With a Republican in passing a similar bilateral spending bill, but only if some agencies are “discriminatory steps to eliminate”Suggled the throat“Of this bill.
However, Mr Johnson on Sunday indicated that he was not interested in advancing the bilateral bill. He said he would instead work towards a Republican spending package, which all 218 members of his Caucasus could agree.
“The process of reconciliation that we are now spending all the time is effectively by designing a discriminatory practice,” Mr Johnson said on Fox News. They were referring to a high -speed track process for budget bills, allowing the Republican Senate to avoid fibest, which usually requires 60 votes.
Some members of the House Republican Cox are still skeptical that they can agree on a bill by March 14. Representative Chip Rai, Republican Texas and remote freedom Cox’s policy chair said on Friday that the possibilities were “very few”. That the Republican March may agree on the cost package by the last date. In January, Mr Rai refused to call Mr. Trump and Mr Johnson both a firearms against his Republican colleagues, calling them “Asinine” to work with Democrats in increasing federal debt limit.
Nevertheless, Mr Johnson said he was hopeful that he could unite the Republicans to carry forward an expenditure bill. The majority of the tight house since 1910.
He said, “We can do this.” We have time. It is in early February, and the deadline is March 14.
