Congress has an extra week to reach a compromise, to pass a longer-term deal that would cover the period through the end of fiscal year 2023.
The American Senate, in turn, approved yesterday Thursday the draft law that guarantees the funding of the services of the US federal state until December 23, thus postponing for a week the specter of the paralysis of the federal state, the famous “shutdown”.
The senators approved this budget text, which had already been approved by the House of Representatives (224-201) yesterday Wednesday, with 71 votes in favor against 19 against. It now just needs to be signed by President Joe Biden to become law.
Congress thus has an extra week to reach a compromise, to approve a longer-term deal that will cover the period until the end of fiscal year 2023.
Members of the US Congress had until midnight today to reach a deal: if they failed to do so, funding for federal agencies would be cut off all at once.
Ministries, national parks, museums and a host of public organizations would take a hit and hundreds of thousands of their workers would be thrown, technically, into unemployment.
The “shutdown” of the winter of 2018, the longest ever, had paralyzed baggage control at airports in particular.
Despite the perennial partisan bickering, the majority of elected politicians of both major parties would not like to see this situation repeat itself, causing commuting chaos in the run-up to the end-of-year holidays.
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