The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has signed the legal legislation that financed the government until the end of September, ending the threat of a partial closure of the government and limiting a fight in Congress that deeply divided the Democrats.
Harrison Fields, press secretary director of the White House, said in an X publication that Trump signed the resolution continues on Saturday.
The bill greatly maintains government financing at the levels established during the presidency of Joe Biden, although with changes.
It cuts the non -defense expenditure by approximately US13 billion ($ A21 billion) of the previous year and increases defense expenditure by approximately $ 6 billion ($ A9.5 billion), which are marginal changes when talking about a higher line expense level of almost $ US $ US1.7 ($ a2.7) Trillones.
The Senate cleared the legislation on Friday in a 54-46 parties line vote, with 10 members of the Senate’s democratic Caucus helping the bill to advance to the opposition of their party, the most vocally of colleagues in the Chamber, who urged them to reject the bill out of control.
The Senate Democrats argued for days about whether to force a closure, furious that the Republicans in the Chamber had written and approved the expenditure measure without their contribution.
The Democrats said that the medical care legislation, housing and other priorities of the legislation, and gives Trump of great margin to redirect federal expenditure even when its administration and the government’s efficiency department quickly dismantle the agencies and programs approved by Congress.
In the end, enough of the Democratic senators decided that a government closure would be even worse than letting the financing bill be approved.
The Senate Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, said that a closure would have given the Trump administration the ability to consider non -essential agencies, programs and personnel, non -essential personnel without promise that they would ever be hired.
“A closure will allow Doge to change to Overdrive,” said Schumer.
“Donald Trump and Elon Musk would be free to destroy the services of the vital government at a much faster rate.”
The approval of the Financing Bill through the Chamber at the beginning of the Week was a victory for Trump and the president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, who managed to keep the United Republicans and muscle the bill to approve without the support of the Democrats, something that they have rarely been able to achieve in the past.
