The US Representative House is going through the extension of federal financing by the end of September
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The United States House of Representatives has been closely adopted by legislation to finance the federal government by the end of September, setting up a showdown in Senate to prevent shutdown at the end of the week.
On Tuesday, the house voted a margin from 217 to 213 to break the stopping measure known as a “continuous resolution” for extending financing due to expiry on Friday.
Of those who throw a ballot leaf, all but one Republican He voted for, while everyone but one Democrat voted against.
“Today, Republicans for homework have been advocated by the US people,” said House President Mike Johnson at X. “Now is the time to decide for Democrats of Senate: to vote for the Government to be open or to be responsible for exclusion.”
Legislative Pass – and Demonstration of the Republican Party Unity – indicates an important victory for president Donald Trumpwho called on the party to push her despite concern.
The proposal of the law now goes to the Senate where it will require support at least eight Democrats to provide a passage. If it fails to pass by Friday, when the financing currently expires, the government will close.
The failure of the Financing Act has twice led to the closure during Trump’s first term, including a record closure that began in December 2018, as the Republicans and Democrats sparked on the financing of the president’s border wall.
Continuous resolution on Tuesday greatly expands the consumption of government agencies at current levels by the end of September, restraining financing in some areas without defense, at the same time increasing them in defense and implementation of immigration.
MPs should make accounts for consumption by the start of each Government Fiscal Year in October, but Republicans could not collect support for the whole account, forcing them to turn to teaching resolution as a stop measure.
If the legislation of the home adopts the Senate, it will be the third extension of temporary financing in the last six months.
If it fails, all “irrelevant” government functions will be suspended from Saturday, including national parks, environmental inspections and food and internal income service. Hundreds of thousands of workers could endanger.
Republicans Tanka most in the house meant that they could only afford to lose their handful of votes.
“We have to buy some time to re -do America Great,” Trump had written On his truth social platform.
The print secretary of the Karolina Leavitt White House said earlier on Tuesday that the president had spent the morning “engaged in correspondence with the Republicans in the house, hitting voices and led them to yes.”
He also sent vice -president JD Vance at Capitol Hill to Cajole MPs and climbed to Congressmen Kentucky Thomas Massie, a lonely Republican posture, calling for a primary challenge against him.
In Senate, legislation requires a superiority of 60 votes to pass. Republicans have 53 places in the chamber, but Republican senator Rand Paul indicated that he plans to vote against it.
“The account continues to spend on an inflated pandemic level and will add $ 2NN dollars this year. Count me as hell no, ” wrote on the X.
Additional Steff Chávez reporting in Washington
