US on track to avoid shutdown

The law provides for an extension of the current budget until December 3, and had the support of Republicans as well as Democrats by Joe Biden, who will then have to enact the rule.

The deadline to avoid the paralysis of services expires at midnight on Thursday.

“It is a good result, of which I am happy,” said the Leader of the Democrats in the Senate, Chuck schumer, before the vote, the result of which was expected.

The stakes are so high that Biden has chosen to cancel a trip to Chicago and conduct negotiations with lawmakers.

And while the president seeks support for his two projects, Members of Congress are doomed to prevent the federal state from running out of budget, which would affect federal departments and agencies, leading thousands of workers to technical unemployment.

To do this, they must pass a law extending this budget, which expires at midnight.

It seems doable because there is a consensus among lawmakers. However, the atmosphere of tension due to party divisions and the narrowness of the margin can complicate everything.

The Democratic Leader of the Senate, Chuck schumer, announced that the vote would take place Thursday morning, on a text which would extend the current budget until December 3.

Enough Republican senators are expected to vote to move the bill forward and avoid a shutdown, before it passes through the House of Representatives, where Democrats hold a majority, before being enacted by Biden .

Avoiding a government shutdown would avoid tensions amid negotiations over Biden’s plans and the threat of default.

Lawmakers must increase the debt capacity of the United States by October 18 if they are to avoid the first default in the history of the world’s largest economic power.

Republicans refuse to suspend the debt issuance limit, saying it would be a blank check for the Biden government.

That’s why they left the decision in the hands of the Democrats, who will have to call their own votes to approve the measure through a parliamentary maneuver that could take time.

But Schumer assures us that “this path is too risky”, and recalls that the debt has accumulated mainly under the government of Donald trump.

The House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a text that plans to suspend the debt ceiling until December 2022, but without the support of Republicans in the Senate, the initiative was born dead.

There is a lot of uncertainty as to what solution Congress will find.

Regarding the Biden plans, lawmakers in the Left wing Democratic Party threatens to derail final vote on infrastructure project (one trillion dollars) expected Thursday in the House, indignant at not having received firm guarantees from the centrists on the progress of the gigantic plan of social reforms (3.5 trillion dollars).