He United States Congress approved a budget law early on Saturday to finance federal agencies and departments until September, thus avoiding a partial cessation of government activities.
Despite the fact that the Senate missed the deadline set for Friday night, it managed to reach an agreement with Democrats and Republicans, where the departure was voted for. 1.2 trillion dollars after the House of Representatives (lower) approved the initiative.
“It was not easy, but tonight our perseverance has paid off (…) It is good for the American people that we have reached a bipartisan agreement to finish the job,” declared the Democratic majority leader in the Senate, Chuck Schumer.
Biden signed the spending bill
Hours later, the Democratic US president Joe Bidenput his signature on the law approved by Congress: “The bipartisan budget law that I just signed keeps the government running“is an investment in the American people and strengthens our economy and national security,” the president said in a statement.
The fact that these last-minute maneuvers occurred are a clear example of the chaos in the US Congress currentlysince throughout the last year the institution He dismissed one of the leaders of the chambers, failed to agree on a new military aid package for Ukraine in the face of the Russian invasion and narrowly avoided the bankruptcy of the main world economy.
In the middle of an election year, this budget was the subject of a long confrontation between Joe Biden’s party and the Republicans.
Negotiators from the White House and Congress had finally agreed on a text, revealed on Wednesday night, but this proposal was immediately criticized by congressmen sympathetic to former Republican President Donald Trump (2017-2021), who will face Biden in the November elections, in a reissue of the definition of the 2020 elections.
On Friday morning, the vote on the federal state budget in the House of Representatives also had its share of excitement.
Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced a “motion” to remove the speaker of the House, her co-partisan Mike Johnson, whom she accuses of “betrayal of the American people.”
The announcement fell like a political bomb in Washington, despite the fact that Greene did not set a timetable for the impeachment vote, which she later described as more of a “warning.”
The law signed by Biden will extend the budget until the end of the fiscal year
This law will extend the US budget until the end of the fiscal year, the September 30th. The text, of 1,012 pages, contains measures with strong repercussions abroad.
The text prohibits any direct US funding to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWAembroiled in controversy since Israel accused 12 of its 13,000 employees in January of being involved in the attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on October 7 in Israeli territory.
This caused the measure to be highly criticized by the left wing of the Democratic Party. Also I know hundreds of millions of dollars are allocated to Taiwan, but it does not unlock any assistance items for Ukraine. The project also contains several measures related to migration, an explosive issue in the midst of the presidential campaign and one on which Republicans are putting pressure. It provides, among other things, for the hiring of tens of thousands of border agents.
Finally, it contains a litany of measures, not necessarily linked to the budget, such as the ban on US embassies from flying the rainbow flag of the LGBT+ community during “Pride Month”.
Source: Ambito
