Washington (AP) – President Donald Trump signed the law law funding the government until the end of September, ending the threat of a partial part government closure And cap a struggle at the congress which deeply divided the Democrats.
Harrison Fields, assistant press secretary of the White House, said in an article on X that Trump had signed the continuous resolution on Saturday.
The bill largely retains government financing at levels fixed during the presidency of Joe Biden, but with changes. It reduces non -defensive expenses by approximately $ 13 billion compared to the previous year and increased defense expenses by around $ 6 billion, which represents marginal changes when talking about a level of front line spending of almost 1.7 Billion of dollars.
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The Senate wrote the legislation on Friday during a vote of 54-46 party parties, with 10 members of the Senate Democratic Caucus helping the bill to go to the opposition despite the opposition of their party – most of the colleagues in the Chamber, who urged them to reject the bill.
The Democrats of the Senate pleaded for days on the advisability of forcing a closure, livide that the Republicans of the Chamber had written and adopted the measure of expenses without their contribution. Democrats have said that health care, housing and other priorities and gives Trump a broad latitude to redirect federal spending, even if its administration and the government’s Ministry of Efficiency quickly dismantle agencies and programs approved by the Congress.
In the end, enough democratic senators decided that a government closure would be even worse than letting the financing bill pass.
The Senate Democrat, Chuck Schumer, said that a closure would have given Trump administration the ability to consider entire agencies, non -essential programs and staff and the staff on leave without any promise that they would ever be rehired.
“A closure will allow Doge to go to overdrive,” said Schumer. “Donald Trump and Elon Musk would be free to destroy vital government services at a much faster rate.”
The adoption of the financing bill across the House earlier in the week was a victory for Trump and the president of the House Mike Johnson, who managed to maintain the Republicans and to build the bill without supporting democrats – something that they have rarely been able to achieve in the past.
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