US under pressure: Americans must accept the provisional budget by the end of the day (December 20), otherwise it will start shutdown, i.e. the closing of most federal institutions. It won't moneySo Work in them it will be stopped from one day to the next. This means, among others: suspension of food inspections, closure of national parks and delays at airports. The consequences will be very severe. And this happens when it seemed that the congressmen had already reached an agreement. And so it was.
A compromise was reached: The project extended existing government programs and services at their current operational level by several months, to the 14th March 2025 was 1,547 pages long and encompassing bills that Democrats and Republicans wanted to adopt even before the second era of Donald Trump. It included, among others: limiting American investments in China, funds for research into drugs for childhood cancer, an increase in the salaries of congressmen, increasing the availability of the Internet in rural areas and money to help victims of hurricanes Helene and Milton.
Trump is already mixing things up: However, the compromise was torpedoed by Elon Musk and Donald Trump. The billionaire, who is to be the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, threatened Republicans that if they support this project, they will be dismissed within two years. They pushed through a new bill, which they slimmed down to 116 pages, throwing out many bills that had bipartisan agreement and had been in development since September. Instead, they demanded that the bill include a provision about: suspending or lifting the US debt limitso that Donald Trump doesn't have to worry about it during his presidency. Democrats believe this opens the way to a reduction taxes the richest Americans.
This was not allowed: The new version of the project did not receive the required 2/3 support. Almost all Democrats and 38 Republicans voted against Donald Trump's proposal. In addition to the above-mentioned debt suspension, it assumed, among others: a three-month extension of the current one budgetUSD 110 billion aid for regions affected by hurricanes, subsidies for farmers and… $50 million for the presidential inauguration. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson will strive to to vote on yet another provisional budget draftbefore the deadline of December 20. It is not known yet what shape it will take.
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