announced Five weeks after the start of the Shutdown in the US, President Trump has a provisional agreement in the budget dispute with the Democrats. This should be valid for three weeks.
After 35 days of the Shutdown ends – for now. US President, Donald Trump declared in the rose garden of the White house: “We have a Deal”. He had agreed with the Democrats on a transitional budget. This should be valid for three weeks. A corresponding paper that he will soon sign. He was proud to announce an agreement that the government would re-open.
In the period up to the end of the transitional budget, a Committee of Republicans and Democrats to discuss the border security, announced Trump. He said barriers would have to be part of a final Plan for border security and renewed its call for a wall. At the same time Trump was threatened with a new government at a standstill and the emergency measures, if there should be no “fair agreement”.
What are the Democrats?
As it is now more in contention for the $ 5.7 billion for the construction of a wall on the border to Mexico? The leader of the opposition in the U.S. Senate, Chuck Schumer, wrote on Twitter: “The President has agreed to our demand to end the Shutdown, and then the topic of border security”.
The President said with a look at the Democrats: “they have finally and completely accepted that there is a barrier or a fence, or walls, or whatever you want to call it, will be an important part of the solution.”
In plain text: so Far there is no solution to the problem. For Trump now has three weeks time.
Proud of his Deal: Donald Trump. But he gets his border wall?
effects tightened
when the government stood still, specifically, it is finished, was not at first clear. Congress must agree to transition financing. Trump said he had asked the majority leader of his Republicans in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, the proposal immediately. The consent of the Democrats in sight – after all, it is their original demand.
with the budget Blockade around 800,000 government employees have not been paid for weeks. Trump has promised that the salary payments should now “be remedied as quickly as possible”.
Recently had exacerbated the effects of the longest stoppage in the public administration in the United States: In New York and Philadelphia, hundreds of flights were cancelled or had a delay, because, according to information from the Supervisory authorities, personnel was missing. Many employees of the air traffic control had reported sick.
In a survey conducted by the Washington Post and the ABC, 53 percent of Trump and the Republicans were for the Shutdown are responsible for 34 percent of the Democrats. 54 percent of respondents were against a border wall, 42 percent. Since the beginning of the budget Trumps are lock anyway moderate Approval ratings even further down.
