USA is heading for an administrative shutdown

In the USA threatens shortly before Christmas Administrative shutdown: On Thursday one of the Republicans submitted proposal for one Transitional budget to finance the federal authorities rejected by the majority of representatives in the House of Representatives by mid-March. If no agreement is reached by midnight on Friday, the shutdown will occur a – with compulsory unpaid leave for state employees and significant restrictions on public life.

The Republicans presented the new proposal after the US President-elect Donald Trump had rejected a previously reached cross-party agreement and demanded a renegotiation. The transition financing is necessary because… Agreement on a full annual budget for 2025 failed months ago.

On the one hand, the new proposal would have… Funding of federal authorities regulated, but on the other hand also as requested by Trump afterwards Debt ceiling suspension extended for two yearsi.e. for the first two years of his second term of office, which begins in January.

Democrats: Proposal is “ridiculous”

Congress has often passed such an extension in recent years so that the US government can fulfill its obligations. However, this was not part of the current budget negotiationsso Trump’s demand came as a surprise to the MPs. A suspension of the debt ceiling is usually possible lengthy negotiations in advance.

The Republicans also need the budget legislation to be passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate Democratic votes. Trump praised the new proposal as a “very good deal for the American people,” while the leader of the Democratic minority in the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, described it as “ridiculous” and “not serious“was immediately rejected.

The first person to object to the cross-party agreement between Republicans and Democrats was the high-tech billionaire appointed by Trump as a government advisor Elon Musk protested vehemently. Trump later agreed with the entrepreneur and instructed his party to bury the compromise with the Democrats.

The deadline for the agreement expires on Saturday

The further Procedure for averting the Shutdown is not clearly marked. The Republican leader of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnsonis on the one hand confronted with demands from Democrats to return to the original agreement, while on the other hand a number of Republicans are now linking the billions in spending planned in it with demands for cuts elsewhere.

The deadline for the agreement expires on Saturday night. In the event of a shutdown, hundreds of thousands of state employees are sent on unpaid compulsory leave and the federal authorities are limited to carrying out only the most important tasks.

In this case it would happen over the Christmas holidays Restrictions on government servicesthe Border control and at numerous public institutions such as national parks and state museums. The longest shutdown occurred in Trump’s first term in office at the turn of the year 2018/2019. The administrative shutdown lasted at that time 35 Roofs.