The financing proposal was approved in the House of Representatives by a clear number of 366–34
In the US, the House of Representatives has passed a Republican funding bill aimed at preventing a US government shutdown. The motion is still going to be approved by the Senate and the President Joe Biden to be signed. Biden has already announced his support for the bill.
The proposal was approved in the House of Representatives by a clear vote of 366–34. All those who voted against the motion were Republican representatives.
There has been a rush to approve the proposal, as its deadline is the night before Saturday local time. The now approved presentation did not include the so-called debt ceiling.
The closure of the administration would have meant in practice, for example, the closing of administrative buildings and layoffs in ministries. The longest government shutdown has lasted just over a month in the United States.
The debt ceiling eroded the previous presentation
The parties had already reached an agreement on the matter earlier, but the future president Donald Trump unexpectedly demanded a renegotiation of the contract.
The Republicans’ controversial bill would have removed the debt ceiling specified in the law for Trump’s first two years in office.
The motion would have required a two-thirds majority to pass, but the Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson couldn’t even get all the members of his own Republican Party behind the new proposal. The show failed on Thursday local time with clear numbers 174–235.
The news is updated.
Sources: AFP, Reuters, STT