The US Senate failed for the fifth time on Monday to adopt spending measures that would reopen the government.
Competent proposals by the Democrats and the Republicans were both shot, not having reached the threshold of 60 votes required.
Donald Trump had reiterated threats of mass layoffs if another vote had failed earlier during the day. Thousands of federal employees have been on leave or ordered to work without salary when the financing of their agencies ended five days ago.
But the American president hinted that he was ready to try to end the deadlock and perhaps conclude an agreement with the Democrats who stick to requirements for the legislation to deal with health care. The Republicans put pressure on a “clean” financing bill.
The bill led by Democrats to prolong the funding of the government failed on Monday with a vote of 45-50. His republican counterpart then failed at 52-42.
Shortly after the vote, Trump went to social networks to blame the Democrats for having closed the government.
“I am happy to work with Democrats on their failed health policies, or anything else, but they must first allow our government to reopen. In fact, they should open our government this evening!” He posted on his social platform Truth.
The Democrats wanted to support the proposal led by the Republicans because they say that it undermines medical access to low -income Americans.
They want any financing bill to ensure health insurance subsidies for low -income Americans do not expose and to reverse the Trump administration cuts on the Medicaid health program.
The Republicans have repeatedly accused the Democrats of having closed the government to provide health care to undocumented immigrants – which Democratic leaders deny. They also said that they will work on the issue of health care in separate legislation after the government’s reopening.
Speaking in the oval office on Monday, Trump said that he is currently negotiating with democratic leadership on any provisions for health care.
“We have an in progress negotiation at the moment with the Democrats who could lead to very good things. And I am talking about good things with regard to health care,” he said.
But Chuck Schumer, the chief of the Democrats in the Senate, wrote on X that “this is not true”.
The White House warned since the closure began last Wednesday that permanent layoffs of federal employees were “imminent”.
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt echoes this on Monday, saying that the management and budget office was already working with agencies that should put people.
“We do not want to see dismissed people. But unfortunately, if this judgment continues, layoffs will be an unfortunate consequence of that,” she said.
Leavitt also called on democratic legislators to give in.
“There is nothing to negotiate. Just reopen the government,” she said.
In separate interviews with NBC’s Meet The Press on Sunday, the best Democrat in the House, Hakeem Jeffries, and the first Republican, President Mike Johnson, each blamed the other party for continuous confrontation.
Jeffries accused the Republicans of “lying” on the intentions of the Democrats in negotiations “because they lose the Court of public opinion”.
But Johnson said that the Democrats were “not serious” and negotiated in bad faith.
“They do this to get political coverage,” he said.
The recent CBS surveys, the BBC news partner, revealed that the Americans consider the two -part treatment of the unfavorably closure, with Trump and the Congress Republicans being slightly more attributed to the situation.
