Washington – Senior Democrats of the Senate Chuck Shomer And the leader of the Republican majority John Thun The excavation takes place before the deadline for this week to keep the government open, while showing a few evidence to budge even with the approval of both sides to meet the president Donald Trump In the White House on Monday.
Republicans say that the Democrats need to help them extend the simple government funding by Tuesday night to avoid closure and will not agree to negotiate even after its approval. Democrats say they want immediate conversations health careThey are ready to close the government if they do not get concessions.
“In an interview broadcast on” Meet the Press “on Sunday, Thun said.
“The ball is in their stadium.” Thun said. ))
“It is up to them” if the Republicans will negotiate when the two sides meet in White House on monday.
Shomer said: “God forbid the Republicans to close the government.” “The American people will know that they are on their back.”
Confronting the Senate is the latest in annual differences on financing, but hopes depend on a quick solution. Democrats have suggested that they are more prepared than ever to allow them to be closed because they are facing their demands Basic voters To fight strongly against Trump and Congress led by Republicans. Some even argue that the closure may not make a big difference because Trump has Lower a lot of government jobs already.
“We hear from the American people that they need help in health care,” Schumer said. “As for these huge hairdos, what is the simple answer, and one skin: they do this anyway.”
The Senate is expected to vote on the draft law that was passed to the House of Representatives to extend government financing on Tuesday, before the deadline at 12:01 am on Wednesday morning to avoid closing. The bill will remain open to the government for another seven weeks while Congress ends Annual spending bills.
Republicans are likely to need at least eight Democrats to agree to a short -term solution, as a Republican Senator. Rand Paul It is expected to vote against it. Most Republicans maintain a 53 -seat majority and need 60 votes to finish filbuster and legislate.
Schumer said that the Democrats need “serious negotiations” at the White House meeting with Trump and four senior leaders of Congress, including the minority leader in the House of Representatives Hakim JeffrezAnd dn.y. And a house speaker Mike JohnsonR-La.
Trump last week It was suddenly canceled Trump said on social media, “A plan for Democrats after” reviewing the details of the unjust and ridiculous demands “of the Democrats,” Trump said on social media.
Shomer said that the re -White House meeting was “a good first step.”
Shomer said: “Now if the president in this meeting will cry and scream only on the Democrats and talk about all his alleged grievances and say this, and the other thing, we will not accomplish anything. But I hope that this will be serious negotiations.”
Before the last possible government closure in March, many Democrats called Shomer To resign After it I provided support for Republicans to keep the government open.
Democrats are now afraid, among other things, that Republicans will allow the law of care at reasonable prices Tax credits The expiration of the validity that has made health insurance more affordable for millions of people since Covid-19 pandemic. Unofficially known as the name ObamacareThe tax credits of the expanded health coverage program that are transferred to low -income persons are set at the end of the year and the open registration begins in November.
Some Republicans are open to the expansion of tax credits, but not without changes. Thun said on Sunday that the program “is in urgent need of reform” and “fraught with risks, fraud and ill -treatment. There are many people who do not even have coverage, because payments are carried out directly to the insurance company.”
The White House raised the possibility of mass fire throughout the federal government if there is a closure. The White House told Trump the agencies of preparing federal workers on a large scale if it was The government is closing.
Johnson told the CNN’s case of Trump “wants to bring leaders to come and act like leaders and do the right thing for the American people.” “The only thing we are trying to do is buy a little time,” Johnson said, with a short -term extension to finish the credits process, “Johnson said.
“It is good to have party discussions and trucks, but you do not keep people as hostages for their services to allow yourself to a political cover and this is what Chuck Schumer and Hakim Jeffrez do at the present time.”
Johnson said that Shomer “does it for one reason: he is trying to get coverage from the advanced left base of his party because they were knocking on Trump’s failure to fight. So he will try to show that he is fighting Trump.”
“We always need to finance government,” Jeffrez told ABC that “we always need to fund government,” adding that he “hoped” to obtain a deal.
Jeffrez said the White House did not explain the reason for canceling the meeting at the beginning and that his party would dismantle the health care of the Republicans earlier this year. Jeffrez said the time is the essence because the high costs of health care will come out “within days.”
“We want to find a path from the two parties forward and reach the spending agreement with our Republican colleagues who already meet the needs of the American people, but it also addresses the republican health care crisis that harms daily Americans.”