If an agreement had not been reached before Friday at 11:59 p.m., thousands of officials would have been subject to technical dismissal. The approved project will allow the State to continue financing until March, when they will have to agree on a new, broader and more detailed budget.
He United States Congress managed to generate consensus and avoided, regarding the time, partial government paralysis upon approving the budget for the remainder of this fiscal year. After the approval of the Senate, the House of Representatives reached an agreement this Thursday, hours before the money for many departments runs out, on Friday at 11:59 p.m.
Now all that remains is for the initiative to maintain the funding of federal agencies stop by the president’s table Joe Biden and that it be promulgated before the deadline expires. Otherwise, thousands of officialsamong them thousands of air traffic controllersthey would be forced to a technical dismissal.
The text achieved approval in Congress after tense negotiations between Republicans, with a majority in the low cameraand the Democrats, with a majority in the Senate.
United States: Congress avoided partial government paralysis
The American congressmen ran with the pressure to avoid partial government “shutdown”anticipating a snow storm that could reach Washington on Friday and House of Representatives He had already canceled voting for that day.
The law will allow the government to continue financing state spending until early Marchwhich will give Congress time to agree on a broader budget and details of spending.
Congress’ recurring inability to approve a budget for the fiscal year (which began four months ago) makes clear the difficulties that the American institutional apparatus has. Short-term financing measures are common to avoid budget paralysis.
Source: Ambito
