- Close stops critical economic data, affecting federal workers.
- The Senate rejects the consumption measure, elaborates the partisan division.
- Analysts warn shutdown could last longer than previous closures.
Washington: The US government closed much of its operations on Wednesday when deep party dispatches prevented Congress and the White House from reaching a financing agreement as they began what could be a long, overwhelming standoff that could lead to the loss of thousands of federal jobs.
There was no clear path out of the model, while agencies warned that the 15th government’s shutdown would stop the release of a closely monitored September employment report, slow air travel, suspend scientific research, withhold wages from US troops and lead to Furlough of 750,000 federal workers at a daily price of $ 400 million.
Trump, whose campaign for radically transforms the federal government, is already on its way to pushing about 300,000 workers in December, the Congress Democrats warned that a closure could clear the way for “irreversible” actions, including cutting more jobs and programs.
The closure began hours after the Senate rejected a short -term consumption measure that would have held government operations fluid through November 21.
The Democrats opposed the legislation of Republicans’ refusal to associate an expansion of health benefits to millions of Americans who have to expire at the end of the year. Republicans say the question should be addressed separately.
This is the government’s financing front is $ 1.7 trillion for the agency’s operation, which is equivalent to about a quarter of the government’s total $ 7 trillion budget. Much of the rest goes to health and retirement programs and interest payments on the growing debt of $ 37.5 trillion.
Independent analysts warn the shutdown could last longer than the budget -related closures of the past, where Trump and the White House officials threaten to punish Democrats with cuts to government programs and the federal payroll.
Trump -Budget Director Russell Vought, who has called for “less Bipartisan” appropriations, threatened permanent redundancies last week in case of shutdown.
Non -Partisan Measure Exacted to Partisan Political Riders
The longest shutdown of the government in the history of the United States spanned over 35 days during December 2018 and January 2019 in Trump’s first term of office, in a dispute over border security.
“All they want to do is try to bully us. And they won’t succeed,” said Senates Democratic leader Chuck Schumer in a flooring speech one day after a white house meeting with Trump and other congress leaders who ended up with the two parties far apart.
Senate’s majority leader John Thune described the failed short-term expenditure bill as a “non-partisan” measure without partisan policy riders that Democrats have had no problem accepting in recent years.
“What has changed is that President Trump is in the White House. That’s what it’s all about. This is politics. And there’s no significant reason why there should be a government stop,” South Dakota Republicans told journalists.
Trump’s Republicans have majorities in both chambers in Congress, but regulatory rules require 60 of the 100 senators to agree on consumer law. This means that at least seven Democrats are needed to adopt a financing bill.
Focus on financing healthcare
Democrats are under pressure from their frustrated supporters to score a rare victory in front of the mid -2026 elections that will determine control of Congress for the last two years of Trump’s period.
Healthcare Push has given them a chance to unite behind a problem that resonates with voters.
Along with the expanded health subsidies, Democrats have also tried to make sure Trump will not be able to regret these changes if signed in the law.
Trump has refused to spend billions of dollars approved by Congress, causing some Democrats to question why they should vote for any expenditure law at all.
The University of Chicago professor Robert Pape said that the unusually polarized US political climate in the wake of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assault and the growing power of both parties’ extreme wings could make it more difficult for party leaders to agree on an agreement to open the government again.
“The rules of politics are radically changing, and we cannot know for sure where all this is going to end,” said Professor of Political Science of University Science, studying from the University of Chicago, who is studying political violence.
“Each page had to backtrack against tens of thousands of millions of really aggressive followers, their own constituents, which will be really difficult for them,” he said.
Before the shut down, Trump reached out to his own supporters with a Deepfake video showing manipulated images of Schumer that appear to criticize the Democrats, while the top house democrat Hakeem Jeffries stood next to him, with a roughly drawn Sombrero and Bart imposed over his face.
“It was childish. It was little,” Schumer told journalists. “It’s something that a five-year-old would do, not a president of the United States. But it shows how unusual they are. They don’t cause anything to the damage they will cause with their shutdown.”
