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Friday evening, the American Senate adopted a bill to avoid a government closure after a handful of democrats abandoned their resistance to the measure sustained by the Republican.
The Senate voted 54-46 to continue to finance the government, a few hours before closing.
Republican senator Rand Paul voted against the measure, while Democrat Jeanne Shaheen and independent Angus King, who caucus with the Democrats, helped to pass him.
During a previous crucial procedural vote, some Democrats helped the Republicans go through the measure, which will finance the federal government until September 30. Chuck SchumerAs well as eight other Democrats and King reassured themselves with the Republicans to bring the so-called resolution continues to a final vote.
The Republicans control the Senate, but required a “supermajority” to approve the procedural vote, which overcome a potential filibuster. The bill is now going to the office of President Donald Trump to sign.
The final vote highlights a week of stretched talks among the Democrats, who have struggled to unify behind a negotiation strategy with Les Républicains. Although they control the two chambers of the Congress, the Republicans have no supermajority and needed the help of the whole aisle to bring the bill to a vote.
The republican bill includes provisions that Democrats are not satisfied. Some Democratic legislators have expressed their concern Asset Too much space to adopt his agenda in the next six months. However, the Democrats did not want to be blamed for a closure of the government, which the president and the Republicans clearly indicated that they would do.
Schumer had first postponed the bill on the peak bill, but reversed his position and helped convince other people in his caucus to vote in favor of the measure.
There was a risk that Trump and the near Elon Musk advisor to use a closure like a ExecutiveSchumer argued, noting that Musk and his so-called ministry of government efficiency (DOGE) could accelerate their cost reduction frenzy with less controls of their power.
Trump praised Schumer for supporting the bill: “I appreciate Senator Schumer, and I think he really did the right thing. I am very impressed by this, “the president told journalists when he went up on the Air Force One just before the end of the final vote.
Schumer’s support for the bill has paved the way for other Democrats in the Senate to follow suit.
After the procedure, Senator Dick Durbin, a principal democrat, said that “the last thing we have to do is plunge our country into chaos and additional disorders by closing the government” while Trump and Musk “take a chainsaw in the workforce of the federal government and the illegal freelance of federal funding”.
Shaheen said that “would play between the Republicans” with a closure would give Musk and Trump “the uncontrolled power of continuing to dismantle the federal government.
However, Schumer was criticized by some in the party for having done so, especially in the house.
Friday, before the vote, Hakeem Jeffries, the best democrat in the House, said that his caucus was “strongly opposed to the bill for republican partisans”, saying that Trump and Musk presented a “false choice” between the closure and a closure of the government. But Jeffries refused to say if he had lost confidence in Schumer.
Democratic representative Nancy Pelosi, former lecturer of the Chamber, also made a blow on Schumer before the vote. “Let’s be clear: neither is a good option for the American people. But this false choice that some buy instead of fighting is unacceptable. »»
The progressive representative of the Democrats Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Thursday that “I hope that the Democrats of the Senate understand that there is nothing intelligent” their move. “These games will not deceive anyone.”
