Washington – The leaders of the Democrats and the Republican are heading The White House to hold a meeting With the president Donald Trump On Monday in a late effort to avoid the closure of the government, but both sides barely showed Any willingness to budge From their firm positions.
If government financing legislation is not approved by Congress and Trump signed on Tuesday night, then many government offices will be throughout the country Closing Unlimited federal employees will be flooded, adding to the pressure on workers and the nation’s economy.
Republicans dare the boldness of Democrats to vote against legislation that will mostly keep government financing at the current levels, but Democrats have so far kept. They use one of the few leverage points to demand that Congress take legislation to expand health care.
“The meeting is a first step, but it is just a first step. We need serious negotiations.”
Trump did not show great attention In entertaining the Democrats’ demands for health care, even when he agreed to hold a meeting to sit on Monday afternoon with Schumer, along with the majority leader of the Senate John Thun, House Speaker Mike Johnson, and the leader of the Hakim Democratic Parliament. The Republican President has repeatedly said that he is fully expected to enter the government to close this week.
“If she had to close, she will have to close,” Trump He said Friday. “But they are the ones who close the government.”
The Trump administration tried to press Democrats in support Away from their demands, warning that federal employees are permanently discharged in the midst of the expiration of financing.
“A few months ago, Chuck Schumer said that the government closure would be messy, harmful and painful. It is right, and for this reason we should not do so.”
However, the Democrats argued that Trump’s approval to hold a meeting indicates that he was pressuring to negotiate. They say this because the Republicans control the White House and Congress, the Americans will often blame them for any closure.
But to adhere to the negotiating distribution, the Democrats in the Senate must vote against a draft law to temporarily extend government financing on Tuesday, just hours before the closure – an uncomfortable position for a party that has long been condemned to close and destroyed.
The draft law has already passed the Republican House of Representatives and will keep the government for another seven weeks while Congress operates on Annual spending legislation.
Any government financing legislation will need to support from at least 60 Senate members. This means that at least eight Democrats will have to vote for the short -term financing bill, because the Republican Senator. Rand Paul It is expected to vote against it.
During the last possible government closure in March, Shomer voted and nine other Democrats voted to break the superior and allow the Republican financing bill to advance to the final vote. the Democrats in New York faced a violent reaction Of many in his party for this decision, some even call him to step down as a democratic leader.
This time, Shomer is firm.
He said: “We hear from the American people that they need help in health care, and between these huge workers, they guess? One simple answer to join: They do this anyway.”
Democrats are pushed to extend the sponsorship law at reasonable prices Tax credits That has supported health insurance for millions of people since the Covid-19s. The credits, designed to expand the coverage of people with low and medium income, will end at the end of the year.
Some Republicans are open to the expansion of tax credits, but they want changes. Thun said on Sunday that the program “is in urgent need of reform” and that the Republicans want to treat “waste, fraud and abuse.” The Democrats pressured to vote for the financing bill and the debate on tax credits is later.
It remains to see whether the White House meeting will help or hurt the chances of decision. The negotiations between Trump and the leaders of the Democratic Congress rarely moved, and Trump was not in great contact with the opposition party during his second term.
The latest negotiations in August ended between Schumer and the President to accelerate the pace of the Senate’s assertion of administrative officials with Trump telling Schumer “to go to hell” in a post on social media.
Trump also suddenly canceled a meeting that was planned with the leaders of Congress last week, and called on the demands of the Democrats “unaware and ridiculous.”
Shomer argued that the White House is back to reschedule a meeting on Monday showing “they felt heat.”