the Senate’s rejection of the Trump-adjusted the draft budget from the house of representatives means the as of midnight the night of Saturday is no approved funding of parts of the american state apparatus. Therefore now the authorities closed and its staff laid off.
affected by the closure marked the ministers of justice, finance, foreign affairs and the ministry of agriculture, the departments of homeland security, commerce and transportation and the environmental protection agency.
It happens now and then that the authorities forced bar again for a longer or shorter period of time because the White house and congress failed to agree on government funding.
A series of shorter closures occurred in the 1980s and 1990s. The longest so far was 27 days in 1996 after a dispute between congress and president Bill Clinton. During the last president Barack Obama lasted a similar conflict in 2013 in the 16 days.
many authorities are planning for it, can happen.
” It has become routine for us every year to plan for a closure, it is not boring? says Dan Wenk, former head of Yellowstone national park, to the Washington Post.
to be properly marked first on the Wednesday, boxing day, which is not a red day in the united states.
There is some confusion as to whether employees need to first pop up in their workplaces on Wednesday or not. It is not easy to contact employees when there is long weekend.
in Total, an estimated 800,000 of the 2.1 million civil servants to be laid off so long as the disagreement about funding are ongoing. How it will be for the 3.7 million private sector employees working on contract to the state is not really clear.
– Closures tend to be messy, but this time it seems cluttered than usual, ” said Tony Reardon, chairman of a trade union, which organizes among other things, officials at the us tax authority IRS.
the IRS is planning to lay off 70.000 employees, a majority, during the closure. Other authorities, where the daily operations are considered more vital, lays off a smaller part. For example, the customs, the police and the correctional system.
