The US Senate tried three times to prevent a government shutdown

according to the report of the International Group Tasnim News, the review of the third temporary bill to prevent the shutdown of the US government has begun in the Senate, while lawmakers in the House of Representatives are trying to pass the bill in Congress before the strike. The final deadlines are Friday (January 19).

Accordingly In this law, more time will be given to the Senate controlled by the Democrats and the Congress controlled by the Republicans to pass the country’s 1.59 trillion dollar budget bill for the new fiscal year, which began at the beginning of October 2023.

The members of the US Senate, with 68 votes in favor against 13 votes against, their negotiations About the temporary budget bill, they are trying to approve it. As soon as this bill is approved, Congress will begin its review.

In this bill, the budget of government institutions will be maintained at the current level, but two new dates are set for the expiration of some of its provisions: the budget for agriculture, food, transportation, housing, energy, military construction, and programs related to Veterans, which ends on Friday, January 19, will be extended until March 1.

Accordingly, the appropriations of other institutions and agencies, including the Department of Defense, Homeland Security and the State Department, which expire on February 2, will be extended until March 8.

Until September 30, 2023, which is the end of the fiscal year, the US Congress could not pass the provisions of the budget bill for the new fiscal year, which It will begin on October 1st, because many Republicans in Congress have called for drastic cuts in government spending. A request that President Joe Biden and other congressional Democrats did not agree to.

Furthermore, another battle is going on between Republicans and Democrats in Congress to allocate military aid funds to Ukraine and Israel in the fight against Russia and Hamas.

This is the third temporary budget bill intended for the new fiscal year to avoid the shutdown of various departments of the government.

About 10 days ago Senior Democratic and Republican representatives of the US Congress on the general budget bill 1/59 they reached an agreement of trillion dollars.

According to this report, since the beginning of last year, committees from the US House of Representatives and the Senate, regarding the 12-item annual budget bill The government did not reach an agreement for the new financial year, which started from October last year and continues until October this year, due to the lack of agreement on its final figure. Since then, two emergency budgets have been considered for some government institutions to prevent from shutting down the government

This is despite the fact that in November, Congress representatives approved the appropriation of 886 billion dollars for the Department of Defense in the current fiscal year, and this bill became law with Joe Biden’s signature. Congress representatives are currently negotiating the details of how to distribute this budget between different departments

Last spring, Joe Biden and former Speaker of the US House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy reached an agreement on a $1.59 trillion budget for fiscal year 2024, along with increasing the level of government debt to avoid a historic debt default in the United States. found.

But shortly after, a conflict between Biden and McCarthy arose over the allocation of additional non-defense funding of $69 billion.

Legislators of the US House of Representatives on November 15th of last year Passed a temporary budget bill with broad support from lawmakers of both parties to prevent a government shutdown.

This temporary budget bill, the government budget until 2024 at the level The current one was extended, giving the representatives more time to work on the details of the overall budget bill for the new fiscal year to cover everything from the military to scientific research.

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