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The US government began a partial closure on Saturday 22 midnight (local time) for lack of funding after Republicans and Democrats failed to reach a congressional budget agreement for US President Donald's demands. Trump, on the financing of a controversial wall on the Mexican border.
More than 800,000 of the 2.1 million federal employees will be affected by the closure of the country's administration, failing to receive their salaries immediately.
Of this number, 420,000 will have to work in the services considered "essential" while the rest will stay at home.
Although Republicans and Democrats accepted a budget on Thursday, the president refused to sign it because he did not plan more than $ 5 billion for the construction of the wall on the border with Mexico that he had demanded. , thus leading the government to its current closure in the face of the Democrats' refusal to support such funds.
Trump sees in this negotiation his last chance to finance the wall of the border, his great electoral promise, since, in January, the Democrats will take control of the House of Representatives
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Some 380,000 workers are expected to be laid off, including 95% of staff at the US NASA and the Ministry of Housing, as well as 52 000 tax agents.
Among the approximately 420,000 public service employees considered to be essential and needing to work without receiving anything, are the 150,000 employees of the Ministry of Homeland Security, responsible for border police and transport, and more than 40,000. security forces such as the FBI, the DEA anti-drug agency and the prison administration. All will receive their payments retroactively when Congress approves the budget and the President signs it.
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Approximately 75% of federal departments have their budgets approved for several months and are therefore not immediately affected. Some of the main departments will be concerned, including those of internal security, justice, trade, transport, housing, the Treasury and the interior, which manages the national parks visited during the holidays, such as the Grand Canyon.
This is the third administrative closure that Trump is facing this year, after the first in January, which lasted three days, while the second, in February, lasted only a few days. hours.
Trump posted a video on Twitter accusing the Democrats of negotiating, asking them to negotiate, stating that "the closing, hopefully, will be the end of the year, it will not last long. "
"We are going to have a closure, we can not do anything about it, because we need Democrats to give us their votes," said Trump.
The president however pointed out that the closure "will last a long time" after stating that he would be "proud" if he could get funding for the wall.
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