The agreement to end the US government shutdown contains three full-year appropriations bills that will fund certain departments such as Agriculture through the end of the fiscal year.
By Armando Hernandez
Los Angeles, November 9 (LaOpinión).- The senators assignment managers budgetary Today they published the text of a three-pack projects of financing law long-term that are part of the plan to end the closing of Government in States Joined (EU).
According CBS Newsthe strategy is to vote to advance the resolution of continuity approved by the House of Representatives and amend it to include the package of assignmentsas well as a longer extension of the financing of the government.
This agreement will end the longest federal government shutdown in the history of the United States, however, not immediately. The amended package would still have to be approved by the House of Representatives and sent to President Donald Trump for his signature, a process that could take several days.
According to the portal Politicalthe initial agreement was negotiated by Democratic Senators Angus King, Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan and several Republican Senators.
The agreement will allow Congress to approve budgeted funds for the departments of Agriculture, Veterans Affairs and other agencies until January 30, while making it possible to pay the salaries of the around 650,000 officials placed on salary suspension and reinstate some officials who were suspended from employment.
Unofficially, as part of the agreement, the representative of the Republican Senate majority, John Thune, promised Democrats to vote in December on an extension of subsidies for the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, which expire at the end of the year and which had become the great obstacle to the agreement.
This closure of the federal government accumulates a record of 40 days, causing the suspension of salaries for several hundred thousand federal officials, the closure of basic services, the non-payment of food stamps for the poorest and long delays in airports and air traffic due to the shortage of controllers or members of airport security.
In the absence of salaries, many civil servants have been forced to resort to food donations or emergency loans while a large number continued to work without receiving pay.