Senate stalemate sends US government shutdown into second week

For the fourth time, American Senators have failed to pass spending proposals to reopen the federal government, which will expand the continuous closure until next week.

Two of separate spending proposals – one of the Democrats and the other of Republicans – failed to reach the required 50 audio threshold.

With both sides in a dead end, the White House said on Friday that it will leave with the “non -allergic mission” from collective demobilization to maintain the operation of basic government services in the event of continued closure, which was described by the press secretary, Caroline Levitte as a “financial mind”.

The scope of this potential layoff is still unclear but the White House was in discussions with the management and budget office, or OMB.

Republican and Democratic lawmakers dug in their wake in the main point of the dispute: health care. Democrats were hoping to take advantage of the dilemma to ensure that health insurance benefits were not completed for those with low income people and the opposite of Trump’s administration discounts to Medicaid Health.

The Republicans, for their part, have repeatedly accused the Democrats of closing the government in an attempt to present it Health care for immigrants is not documented The charge of Democratic leaders denied.

A total of 54 Senate members voted in favor of a proposal to lead the Republic to finance the government, with 44 against two who do not vote.

A separate proposal failed to lead the Democrats, with a vote 45 in favor and 52 against.

Both sides continue to blame the other on the closure, with a small mark on any progress in the negotiations.

“We can vote, vote and vote,” Republican Senator in the state of Missouri Josh Hawly told the BBC. “But it is essentially up to five people.”

During a White House press conference, the secretary accused the journalist, Caroline Levitt, of preparing the Americans “hostility to their demands.”

She added: “The economic consequences of this closure accumulate every day,” noting that 15 billion dollars (11.1 billion pounds) in GDP can be lost every week with the high unemployment.

White House officials have repeatedly pledged to remove federal workers if the closure continues, and earlier this week, President Donald Trump published that he would meet with Russell Feon, who heads Oomb, to study “any of the numerous democratic agencies” that must be cut.

The White House has not provided any scope or timetable for any possible layoffs or discounts for agencies. Levitte said that most of these cuts will come from agencies “not in line with the values ​​of this administration, which is to put our country in the first place.”

As part of the federal government’s response to the closure, Vogue on Friday announced a suspension of $ 2.1 billion in the financing of the Federal Infrastructure for Chicago, in addition to the previous freezing of $ 18 billion in infrastructure spending in New York City.

In the Senate Hall, minority leader Chuck Schumer said that the Democrats are fighting the health care issue because “we know that the Americans want this.”

“We know that many of my Republican colleagues want it too,” he said. “But failure to act will be destroyed, and the Republicans know this.”

Some Democrats – including Senator in Connecticut Richard Blumentel, and Snitur Pennsylvania, John Vitirman, said they want to hear directly from the president about the constant stalemate.

Quoting a draft law of the party border that the president eventually rejected last year, they said they were afraid that Trump will eventually contradict Trump.

Early opinion polls suggested that Americans are deeply divided upon closure, as a survey was conducted in the Washington Post on October 1 that 47 % of American adults blame Republicans, compared to 30 % who blame Democrats.

23 % of others said they were not sure.

(With additional reports from Cai Pigliucci on Capitol Hill)