2023-11-12 08:40:26
To avoid budgetary paralysis in the United States, the Republican Party has proposed an unusual plan, which would make it possible to secure the continuity of certain federal services.
The Republican Party unveiled on Saturday an unconventional temporary plan to finance the American federal state, threatened in a few days with possible budgetary paralysis (“shutdown”).
This two-part plan is “a necessary text to put House Republicans in the best possible position to defend conservative victories,” said Republican Mike Johnson, the new speaker of the House of Representatives. “The law project will end the absurd holiday season tradition of presenting massive, jam-packed spending bills just before the Christmas holiday“, Mr. Johnson wrote on X, without giving details.
American media have claimed that as part of this unusual plan, certain bills necessary to keep federal services open would be adopted via a short-term bill until January 19, while the rest would be postponed until February 2.
That would save Congress time to pass various spending bills, without committing funding for Israel, Ukraine and border security, according to media reports.
Some Republicans are already complaining that the plan doesn’t provide the funding cuts they seek. It is therefore not certain that the party, which only has a small majority in the House of Representatives, will be able to adopt it, and even less so the Senate, controlled by the Democrats.
The federal state budget expires on the evening of Friday, November 17 at midnight.
Without an agreement by this date, the world’s largest economy will suddenly slow down, 1.5 million civil servants will be deprived of their salaries and air traffic disrupted.
The latest negotiations around the American federal budget, at the end of September, had already plunged the institution into chaos. Trumpist elected officials, furious that the Republican President of the House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy reached a last minute agreement with the Democratic camp, had dismissed him, an absolutely unprecedented situation.
It then took three weeks for elected officials to agree on a new “speaker”, Mike Johnson. Three weeks during which the American Congress had not been able to adopt any law.
This elected official from Louisiana, unknown to the general public and with very limited experience within the Republican general staff, must deal, like his predecessor, with a handful of Trumpists, supporters of a very strict budgetary orthodoxy, and the Democrats, who refuse to have the country’s economic policy dictated to them by lieutenants of the former president.
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