Trump: Democrats are looking to extend the governme shutdown – Mehr News Agency | RCO News Agency
According to RCO News Agency, quoted by Al Jazeera, Donald Trump attacked the Democrats because of the coinued shutdown of the governme.
Trump urged Republicans to change voting rules in Congress to end the governme shutdown, despite opposition from Democrats.
He accused Democrats of seeking to prolong the governme shutdown in order to make electoral gains and gain more seats in Congress.
Trump said: Democrats are crazy; They wa to give trillions of dollars to illegal immigras, many of whom are in prison, and we will not allow that.
It should be meioned that the federal governme has been closed since October 1 (October 9) due to the inability of Congress to approve a temporary budget.
Democrats have announced the extension of health care subsidies uil the end of the year as a condition of reopening the governme, but Republicans say they will negotiate on this issue only after the governme reopens.
As a result of this impasse, about 750,000 federal employees have gone on mandatory leave, and another group coinues to work without pay. The Trump administration has announced that military personnel, law enforceme officers, and Immigration and Customs Enforceme officers have received their final paychecks.
However, the governme shutdown will soon have more serious consequences for the general public, as the nutrition assistance program faces a funding shortfall next Saturday. The US Departme of Agriculture has announced that it cannot use the $5.5 billion emergency reserve fund to coinue this program; Therefore, food aid paymes will stop in states that are unable to make up the shortfall.
