USA It is located a few hours from a paralysis of the federal government by lack of agreement on the Budget for which the Democratic president blames each other Joe Biden and the republican opposition.
Barring a last-minute agreement, which seems highly unlikely, The largest economy in the world will work in slow motion from Sunday: 1.5 million civil servants will be without salary, air traffic will be disrupted and many public services will not be served.
Neither him Senatecontrolled by the democratsnot even House of Representativesled by the republicansthey still managed to pass a bill to extend the federal budget which expires at 1 in the morning on Sunday -Argentine time.
This budget crisis has direct repercussions on the ukrainian war: the White House initially requested that the budget approved by the representatives include $24 billion in military and humanitarian aid for kyiv.
Aware of the political problems of his great American ally, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskywent to Congress last week to try to convince Washington to help him cross “the finish line” in view of Russia.
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The position of hardline legislators
But a handful of Republican followers of the former president donald trump refuses to unlock any new help Kyiv considering that these funds should be allocated to the US immigration crisisreported the AFP news agency.
That group of conservative legislators blocked a short term financing bill presented by the president of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthyfrom his same party, which sought to avoid the paralysis of the US government.
The 21 hardline legislatorsled by Matt Gaetzvoted along with the Democrats against the proposal McCarthywhich provided for cuts of almost 30% and strict border security measures, because they considered it to be insufficient.
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What happened during Donald Trump’s presidency?
During the presidency of trump, USA lived in 2018 his “shutdown” (federal government shutdown) longer. According to various estimates, the GDP It then lost more than US$3 billion.
Hours before the deadline, USA prepares for a new paralysis of public services: Officials were already notified on Thursday of the impending situation. Most of the American national parksas Yosemite either Yellowstonethey will remain closed. Also planned is a serious disruption to air trafficsince controllers and officials of the transportation security agency will stop receiving their salaries.
Some 7 million women and children could be deprived of food aidaccording to White House.
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Reuters
A spokesperson for Department of State warned that it is necessary to maintain, in addition to the financial aid to Ukrainethe humanitarian assistance In the world, funds dedicated to migration crisis wave fight crime in Africa.
On the contrary, those considered will continue to operate “essential services” such as border protection, hospital medical care, air traffic control, law enforcement or power grid maintenance.
Every week with federal government paralyzed, it would cost the GDP US 0.2 growth points in the fourth quarter, according to investment bank economists Goldman Sachs.
Source: Ambito
