GREENVILLE – The government’s closure is a disruptive and embarrassing for South Carolinians, said Senator Lindsey Graham on October 6, but the senior state senator plans to find a breakthrough with the Democrats this week.
“There are more and more democrats who do not understand that it does not work for them,” he told journalists in Greenville before returning to Washington, DC, where senators are responsible for concluding an agreement to finance the federal government and end a closure that has restored through the country.
The closure began at midnight on September 30 after two proposals failed: a democratic measure to extend health care subsidies under the Act respecting affordable care and reverse cups in Medicaid, and a second republican financing bill that would have maintained the government afloat for seven weeks.
Continuous closure means working without salary for an indefinite number of police officers, screening for airports and men and women in military uniform who will remain at work in South Carolina.
Social security benefits will continue without interruption, but offices in a state of most of the affected agencies have closed. Most of the agency’s social media and internet sites have become dormant and the National Park Service sites do not work.
The judgment triggered the point of pointing on both sides of the aisle, the Republicans like Graham saying that they will not be held hostage to negotiate a health package which does not express before December and the Democrats saying that the question cannot wait.
“If you want a political result, closing the government is not the way to get this political result,” said Graham, adding that there are three Democrats who could help get a package this week.
To do this, the Republicans turn to democratic rank instead of leadership as the head of the Senate minority, Senator Chuck Schumer, and the minority head of the Hakeem Jeffries Chamber, DN.Y., who accused the Republicans of being both the engine of closure and absent from negotiations.
“It will be the rank and the file that will, not the leaders,” said Graham.
The Democrats remained firm in their opposition to the plans of the GOP.
“Republicans lie on closure because they are desperate to distract the invoice of Trump and reduce tax credits on affordable care, to remove health care by 15 million and to considerably increase the premiums for millions more,” said American representative Jim Clyburn, DS.C., October 4. “They want you to ignore this health care crisis.”
Graham, who chairs the Senate Budget Committee, presented himself to the re -election in 2026. He came to Greenville on October 6 to speak to the first Monday club of the Poinsett Club, where he promoted his close relationship with President Donald Trump and answered questions from a crowd of local business leaders, candidates and politicians.
Graham underlined the success of Trump’s tax reductions in 2017 and financing border security and pleaded for more glacial agents in South Carolina, the local participation of the police in the application of immigration and addressing the opioid crisis.
He praised Trump’s foreign policies on Ukraine and China, including prices, as well as domestic policy, such as health care and drug prices.
Graham is confronted with the architect of the Policy Policy Policy 2025, Paul in, and a businessman of the Mark Lynch State in the primary next year. Democrats Annie Andrews – who previously challenged the representative of Lowcountry Nancy Mace – Brandon Brown, Catherine Fleming Bruce and Kyle Freeman also presented in elementary school to challenge him. Graham has Trump’s approval in the race.
As he answered a question about the mandate limits, Graham said he has taken advantage of his experience for the benefit of people in the room.
“It will come a day when my time will be elapsed, and it’s a good thing,” he told the crowd. “We all do us while we can. But I have never felt better about my ability to represent you in various ways than I do. I let you see if you agree. ”
