(Washington) The US House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to extend the state budget until March 11 and push back, once again, the threat of a paralysis of federal services.
Posted at 6:07 p.m.
Adopted with many Republican votes, this text proposed by the Democrats now takes the road to the Senate where it will have to be voted on to be promulgated by President Biden.
The two parties in Congress are currently unable to agree to adopt a final budget for the fiscal year of 2022. They are forced instead to extend, each time for a month or two, the current budget. , adopted under the presidency of Donald Trump.
In addition to depriving certain social programs of funds, this also slows down other projects in the American Congress and therefore the passage of the reforms desired by Joe Biden. However, the leader is looking at all costs for a victory to relaunch his presidency, a few months before crucial legislative elections.
At the end of September, then in mid-December, the Congress had thus multiplied the negotiations to avoid in extremis the threat of a paralysis of the federal State, nicknamed “shutdown”. The last adopted budget expires on February 18, in 10 days.
A sudden drying up of the finances of the federal services would force hundreds of thousands of employees into technical unemployment. Despite the strong partisan divisions, most elected officials on both sides do not want this very unpopular situation.