Washington – Democrats in the Senate who have He struggled for several months To confront President Donald Trump has settled on a bold strategy and one step if they did not obtain great concessions on health care before government financing was running out on Wednesday: voting to close the government.
The plan was strongly supported by many frustrated voters in Al Qaeda and the party, some of whom called on the Democratic Leader of the Senate Chuck Schumer from New York To resign In March after that I provided support for Republicans to keep the government open at the time.
“America’s ability to withstand this moment requires a democratic party leading vibrant, effective and public resistance,” wrote Katie Bethel, Executive Director of a Liberal Group at the popular base, in a letter to party leaders.
Less clear The closure will start The administration can begin to place hundreds or even thousands of federal workers, if it communicates with the plans The White House put it this week.
How does everything end? And what do Democrats do after that?
Publicly, Democrats say they believe that Trump and the Republicans will bear the blame if there is a closure and that they will eventually have to negotiate a compromise. This is a risky bet.
Republicans keep the majority in the House of Representatives and the Senate and did not show any signs of retreat Democrats insist An immediate extension of the healthcare benefits ending at the end of the year, among other demands.
Democrats also adopted a somewhat resigned point of view.
Schumer said this month that the country “will get worse with or without.” “Because Trump is illegal.” It is an unconfirmed end and directed about the Democrats who in the past strongly closed the Republicans.
The closure that extends with the mass shooting of federal workers will be a great escalation in the annual spending battles between the two parties. The threat of closing the government – and potential political repercussions – may generally fear both sides enough to bring everyone to the negotiating table, in the end.
“The government’s financing is democratic property rights, at least it has always been,” said the majority leader of the Senate, John Thun, who refused to negotiate with the Democrats unless they help to extend the extension of government financing for a period of seven weeks that led to the purification of the House of Representatives. “Here they direct us from this abyss.”
Latest suspension – The longest nation -In the winter of 2018-19, when Trump insisted on federal dollars to build the American border and Mexico wall during his first term. End when he is to retreat After 35 days.
Schumer says that things have changed since his vote in March to help finance the government during the summer.
Republicans He passed a huge tax bill That has cut the spending of medical aid, and Trump has repeatedlyProhibited Federal spending approved by Congress. Democrats say that Republicans did not extend to negotiation, and criticized Trump cancellation A meeting at the White House with Schumer and the Democratic leader of the House of Representatives, Hakim Jeffrez from New York.
It seems that the president may be the opposite of the path, as it is You are now planning to meet With Shomer, Jeffrez, Thun and Parliament Speaker Mike Johnson on Monday.
“Only this president – he does not want to be president if he is unable to sit and negotiate with the two democratic leaders,” Schumer said in the PBS program this week.
Jeffrez said on Friday that the Democrats “will not go along.”
Johnson “has my number. John Thun has my number.” “The White House knows how to communicate.”
Most Democrats in the Senate together gathered together the threat of closing, but some can vote in the gathering to keep the government open or try to conclude a deal when the deadline arrives.
Senator John Vitirman, DA, with Republicans in the test voting, and the voice of nine other Democrats with Schumer and the Republicans in March’s decision. Republicans will need at least six additional Democrats, who are likely to reach 60 votes necessary for traffic.
Shomer has a lot to lose in any of the two directions, after he was wandering from liberal groups and many voters, in the spring.
There was a set of anxiety and frustration over months between the democratic base, driven by the grip of the Republicans on Washington and a growing vision that the Democratic Party is Very weak To fight. Now, with the federal closures looming on the horizon, many activists and legislators see a rare point of financial lever and an opportunity to reformulate the party’s image with the voters.
“It would be naive to suggest that all the confidence lost by the Democratic officials lost and lost the main voters in a moment or one battle,” Joel Payne, Communications President, told Moveon. “But I think it will come a long way to start the opposite of this relationship.”
Sydney’s record of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee said that the Democrats cannot bear the return again, even if that means that the administration is implementing the federal workers’ demobilization.
The registration said that voting with the Republicans was like giving “the school courtyard bullying with lunch.”
She said: “I want to see them adhering to their lunch money, because all the fatwa will do is trying to continue stealing from you.”
Senator Korea Booker, DN.J. , Similarly similar to Trump and democratic efforts to expand expanded health care benefits, which expire on January 1. Some Republicans support this extension, but Trump leaders and the Republican Party party said this is a battle later in the year. Democrats say the time of work is now.
Booker said this month: “I am not afraid of (Trump), nor are I afraid of his threats, and I know that this will be a difficult battle and an ugly battle.” “But this is one battle that deserves its existence, and this is where I stand.”
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This report contributed to this report in Atlanta, Joy Capliti and Lza Massacaro in Washington, Associated Press, Bill Barrow in Atlanta, Joy Capliti, Lza Massardu, Washington.