Republican lawmakers in the US House of Representatives plan to vote on December 20 (Vietnam time).
“We have reached an agreement,” Reuters on December 20 quoted Republican congressman Tom Cole, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, as telling journalists about a new solution to prevent the US government from shutting down in the coming months. today tomorrow.
The new proposed package provides funding for the government to operate within three months, until President-elect Donald Trump enters the White House and the Republican Party moves to control both chambers of Congress, according to Reuters, citing sources familiar with the matter. .
The proposal also includes $100 billion in disaster aid and $10 billion in aid for agricultural and related activities.
The agreement package also postpones the public debt ceiling until January 2027, meaning that trillions of dollars will continue to be added to the current federal debt of up to $36,000 billion.
The new Republican proposal has received the support of Mr. Trump. Previously, the President-elect spoke out against the agreement reached between the two parties, causing Republican lawmakers on December 18 to suddenly reject the bill to prevent the government from shutting down before the vote.
Despite Mr. Trump’s support, the Democrats in Congress immediately rejected the new proposal from Republican lawmakers on the grounds that it was “not serious” and “ridiculous”.
Currently, the Republicans control the House of Representatives with a ratio of 219-211, the bill is unlikely to pass if the Democrats unite to reject it.
Updated information, the US House of Representatives rejected the bill allowing the maintenance of a temporary spending budget for the US government, after Republican leaders withdrew from the previous bipartisan agreement and made adjustments because the President President-elect Donald Trump objected. The result of the vote on the evening of December 19 local time (morning December 20 Vietnam time) was 174-235, not reaching the necessary number of positive votes for the bill to pass. Despite Mr. Trump’s support, 38 Republican congressmen voted against, and only 2 Democratic congressmen voted in favor.
That means the US government is approaching the threshold of a temporary shutdown from December 21.
