Shortly before christmas, 800.000 public employees in the UNITED states a bland, early christmas present: Your job is affected by a shut-down (shutdown), and therefore do not pay before a solution is found.
the Decommissioning has now started on the 33. day, and a political solution is still not oppeover. The 800,000 people has therefore still not been paid. 400,000 of them have got the message still has to get to work, and then they get their pay later. The remaining 400.000 will have neither work or pay.
And for several families this is approaching a critical point.
– Now it has here lasted for over a month, and it begins to tighten to the private households. There are more and more stories about people not being paid, who are worried about whether they can pay their bills and rent, and about the need to sell belongings and borrow. There are not many ordinary american households, that can stick to it here, when it lasts so long, ” says Anders Agner Pedersen, who is editor-in-chief on the kongressen.com, Extra Magazine.
The us ‘shutdown’
Parts of the u.s. state apparatus has been shut down since 22. december of last year. It is because there has been adopted a budget for the parts of the state.
a total Of 800,000 people are affected, but as 400,000 are believed to perform such vital functions that they have been asked to come to work anyway, even if they cannot be paid retroactively.
the Members, and the Senate and the House of Representatives had agreed on a budget like Donald Trump also had approved, but in the end changed the president.
The republican congressmen changed also and voted against the budget.
The big point of contention is the wall to Mexico, as Trump since the election campaign in 2016 has promised he would build. The democrats, who have majorities in the House of Representatives, however, refuses to put money by for the wall.
in Order that the budget may be approved, it requires a majority in both houses of Congress, and the president approves it. In order to circumvent the president, there shall be two-thirds majority, which therefore will require republican support outside of the president.
the UNITED states has a total of 2.1 million civil servants.
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in Several places in the UNITED states see also long queues of government employees who have accepted different offer to receive free food and drink to get through the crisis.
– Usually by the shutdowns, there is a solution found in the course of a few days, but it’s nowhere near as many as we see now, he says.
thus, This is the longest shutdown in U.S. history.
hundreds of public employees are in the queue here in Washington DC, in order to receive food as a consolation for their failure to pay. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/AFP/Ritzau Scanpix
According to u.s. media bull the public employees now, among other things, to credit cards, pawn shops and bijobs to muddle through the crisis.
Among other things the newly elected president of the House of Representatives, democrat Nancy Pelosi, has participated in the distribution of food. Photo: photo: Chip Somodevilla/AFP/Ritzau Scanpix
Among the employees who are sent home from work, employees in museums and national parks. It has, among other at the start of the decommissioning resulted in deaths in the national parks, but otherwise the effect of them, which are not covered by the decommissioning is still limited.
– The ordinary americans every day life is as such not directly affected by it here. It’s not like you suddenly say, ‘hey, where were the police’. So the general american population is not much affected by it here, but for the 800,000 people who are directly affected, is it really something bad, ” says Anders Agner Pedersen.
quietly begins the consequences, however, to spread out in other areas of american society. Thus, the courts have stated that they run out of money 1. February and may begin to send employees home, like the repayment of tax is on it’s way to be hit due to shortage of employees.
– the longer The time that passes, the more of the kind of examples will come to light, ” says Anders Agner Pedersen.
Employees in the country’s airports have several times protested, that they are expected to work without pay. Here it is in the airport in Boston. Photo: Scott Eisden/AFP/Ritzau Scanpix
When the shutdown of state government before or since being brought to an end, in principle, there is 400,000 people, which faced with buck-passing and have not been paid in the period, the shutdown has lasted.
It is possible, however, that some politicians will have mercy on them and come up with an economic hand-up, assesses Anders Agner Pedersen.
– It will probably be probable that you will see politicians on Capitol Hill, who will try to make suggestions as to how to compensate the people who have been taken hostage in a political conflict. It is a bad story for the politicians, to the ordinary people so hard, he says.
Policy – 9. jan. 2019 – at. 19:36 the Country is still shut down: Trump will have his wall
Food will be hit over-the-counter to the many public employees have so far missed a month’s salary. Photo: Photo credit: Drew Angerer/AFP/Ritzau Scanpix
But for now, there is nothing to suggest that a solution is just up above.
the Negotiations are at an impasse with Donald Trump on the one hand, requires the money to build a wall on the border to Mexico, and the Democrats, on the other hand, who refuse to spend money on Trumps promise.
– The big problem for Trump is that americans first and foremost, it gives him the blame for it here. It is really something møj for him, for most of the measurements now shows that a clear majority gives Trump the responsibility for it here, ” says Anders Agner Pedersen.
Trump even begin to be caught between two chairs.
His own base is, on the one hand very hard in the felt and says that he should just go for it, for the wall to be built. But on the other hand, there are also some of his own constituents, either directly or indirectly been affected by it here, which says that now they will also have one everyday to work, he says.
Trump has several times stressed that he has as a very clear condition, that the Democrats should go with to finance his wall. Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Ritzau Scanpix
the Trumps major problem is that some of his biggest supporters have stressed that it is essential that Trump built the wall.
– The stresses really Trumps dilemma. He can’t just say ‘okay, we can drop the wall’. So his base is furious. And every single time he talks about a wall, watching the Democrats red. They will simply not want to hear about. So he must find a way or the other, which he may satisfy both parties, and it is not so easy, assess, Anders Agner Pedersen.
The, until recently, so far the longest ‘shutdown’ of the us state apparatus took place in the period between 16. december 1995 and 6. January 1996. A total period of 22 days. The record is thus provisionally released, with 11 days.