For two decades, approving budgets in the United States has been a highly complex and often unsuccessful challenge. Since 2013, there have already been three “government shutdowns,” in which lack of funds forced civil servants to stop paying their salaries and suspend all nonessential functions, such as the management of national parks. With a week left before this crisis occurs again, the parties are negotiating against the clock to avoid a political crisis erupting in the middle of an election campaign.
The deadline is October 1, the start date of the financial year. Any deal must begin processing this week to arrive on timeThis weekend, Congressional Speaker Mike Johnson, Republican, and Senate Leader Chuck Schumer, Democrat, reached a tentative agreement to extend the budgets until December 20 and leave the hot potato for after the elections. But it’s not all that simple.
Republican candidate Donald Trump wants to sow as much chaos as possible during the campaign. asked his members of Congress to vote against the agreement. Trump is demanding that a law be passed to ban people already banned from voting (non-naturalized immigrants) from being able to vote. No one has been able to prove that an immigrant voted in a recent election, but Trump demands new law to further ban what is already banned as part of his campaign to denounce imaginary electoral fraud if he loses, as he already did in 2020.
The result has been to split the Republican Party in two, between representatives who support Trump’s conspiracy theories and demand this “election security” law as a quid pro quo for budgets, and those who would rather not trigger an unnecessary crisis when citizens start voting. Most key states open their polls in late September or early October, and these Republicans fear that Leaving hundreds of thousands of public sector workers without pay and millions of people without services, even though everyone affected can now vote, is ultimately backfiring..
Barring any surprises, the bill to extend the budget will require a two-thirds majority in the House of Representatives, which requires one-third of Republican representatives to vote in favor. The vote is expected to take place Wednesday and The fear is that there will be a “Trumpist” rebellion within Republican ranks that will torpedo the deal and trigger a crisis in the middle of the campaign..
