The US Senate must approve a project to finance the government before Saturday, but there are differences between Democrats and Republicans about the final resolution.
American legislators are running out of time to approve a continuous short -term resolution that will finance the government beyond the deadline of March 14.
“Democrats must decide whether they will support the financing legislation that arose from the House of Representatives or if they will close the Government. Until now, they seem to plan it,” said the leader of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, in the Plenary of the Senate.
Assignments law requires a threshold of 60 votes for approval in the Senate, which means that Republicans need to ensure at least eight Democratic votes.
The senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, requested that the Senate approve an earlier version of the continuous resolution in whose negotiation the Democrats participated.
“Financing the government should be a bipartisan effort. But the Republicans opted for a partisan path, writing their resolution without any contribution of the Democrats of Congress,” Schumer said in the Senate's plenary senate on Wednesday night.
Democratic senators say they are worried about facilitating the way for the Trump administration to continue with large -scale changes in the federal government and social security network programs.
“I don't want a government closure,” said Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen on Thursday. “And that's why I would like to vote a bill to maintain the open government for 30 days while we maintain a bipartisan negotiation. But I will not support this bill of the Republican Representatives Chamber that simply gives Elon Musk more resources and tools to dismantle large sectors of the federal government and manipulate it for people like him and the very rich.”
“Voting against the resolution will harm the American people and will end the incredible impulse that President (Donald) Trump has built in the last 51 days,” said White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, journalists earlier this week.
The House of Representatives, of a Republican majority, approved on Tuesday a short -term expenditure measure for 217 votes in favor and 213 against. The camera suspended its sessions the rest of the week from Tuesday afternoon, pressing the senators to approve their version.
The president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, silenced the dissent within his Republican party to approve the expenditure measure. On Tuesday, he told the press that the continuous resolution of seven months represented an important step towards the implementation of the Trump agenda to eradicate waste and government abuses through the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge).
“It allows us to advance in the modification of the size and scope of the federal government. In Washington there is a radical change. This is an unprecedented moment. Doge's work is detecting massive amounts of fraud, waste and abuse, ”said Johnson. “We have a really committed white house to return to the path of fiscal responsibility.”
However, control agencies and independent analysts say that Doge is using accusations of fraud too broad to generate support for large -scale cuts in federal programs and offices.
The representative Thomas Massie was the only Republican who remained firm, despite the publication Trump made on Monday night in Truth Socially asking that Massie lost his seat if he voted against the expenditure measure.
The continuous resolution gives time to legislators to reach a commitment to the versions of the Senate and the House of Representatives on government spending, a key tool to implement the Trump's internal policy agenda.
The question is how and when to promulgate a proposal for the extension of the 2017 tax cuts and how to reduce the United States deficit without cutting key security network programs that help US voters.
Senate leaders have proposed to approve tax cuts in a separate bill at the end of this year.