Biden’s Struggle to Avoid a Government Shutdown

, The White House announced that US President Joe Biden plans to meet tomorrow Tuesday to discuss the government’s budget for the latest fiscal year with to meet with congressional leaders nearing its shutdown deadline.

Accordingly, Biden will meet with leading Democrats and Republicans in Congress and the Senate to discuss the need to approve the administration’s budget before midnight on Friday, March 2, the budget approval deadline. The government is for the last financial year, to emphasize.

Also, in this meeting, the President of the United States plans to discuss the national security bill and allocating aid funds for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, which was presented by the Senate, but the Republicans of the Congress refused to review and approve it.

These negotiations are taking place while the lawmakers of the Congress are still deadlocked for the approval of the budget bill in order to prevent the government shutdown, and the negotiations in this regard have not been completed.

Chuck Schumer President The majority of the Senate said in a statement that no agreement has been reached yet. He asked Congress President Mike Johnson to prepare and present a bipartisan agreement despite the opposition of some Republican lawmakers to the federal budget bill.

Johnson said a little later in a post on X social network: Republicans are still good Nate is negotiating about this and many of the issues that are still left for discussion are the demands of the Democrats. He expressed hope that an agreement would be reached as soon as possible.

In the meantime, the budget of some American government institutions in the recent fiscal year, including the budget of the Transportation Department, ends on March 1, while The deadline for the end of the budget of other departments and institutions, including the Ministry of Defense, is March 8.

Accordingly, Congress should bill approve Biden’s proposal to be implemented. The Republicans of the US House of Representatives and the Democrats of the Congress held several negotiations to approve the budget bill for the recent fiscal year.

Last month, the third temporary bill was passed to prevent the shutdown of the government before the deadline. was investigated. In this bill, more time was given to the Senate controlled by the Democrats and the Congress controlled by the Republicans to pass the budget bill of 1.59 trillion dollars for the new fiscal year, which started at the beginning of October 2023.

In this bill, the budget of government institutions was kept at the current level, but two new dates for the expiration of some of its provisions are considered: the budget for agriculture, food, transportation, housing, Energy, military construction and veterans programs, which expire on Friday, January 19, have been extended to March 1.

Accordingly, Appropriations for other agencies and institutions, including the Department of Defense, Homeland Security, and the State Department, which were set to expire on February 2, have been extended to March 8. American lawmakers must now approve additional funding for the entire fiscal year.

The US Congress could not pass the provisions of the budget bill until September 30, 2023, which is the end of the fiscal year. for the new fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, as many Republicans in Congress called for drastic cuts in government spending. A request that President Joe Biden and other congressional Democrats did not agree to.

In addition, another battle between congressional Republicans and Democrats for appropriations Military aid to Ukraine and Israel is ongoing in the fight against Russia and Hamas.

Meanwhile, early January this year Democratic and Republican senior representatives of the US Congress reached an agreement on the general budget bill of 1.59 trillion dollars.

According to this report, since the beginning of last year, committees from the US House of Representatives and the Senate have been discussing the 12-item annual government budget bill for the new fiscal year that started from October last year and until October of this year continues, due to the lack of agreement on its final figure, they did not reach an agreement. Since then, three emergency budgets have been set aside for some government institutions to prevent a government shutdown.

Meanwhile, earlier this month, the White House Office of Management and Budget announced in a statement that Joe Biden will present his proposed budget bill for the latest fiscal year on March 11.

Accordingly, this document is an arbitrary list of how the government spent its money in the most recent fiscal year, which began in October 2023. This issue has a special symbolic significance for this year when President Biden is the Democratic candidate for the 2024 presidential election.

Last spring Joe Biden and President Kevin McCarthy The US House of Representatives 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.

But soon after, a fight broke out between Biden and McCarthy over the additional non-defense budget allocation of $69 billion.

Lawmakers of the US House of Representatives in On November 15th of last year, lawmakers from both parties passed a temporary budget bill with broad support to prevent a government shutdown.

This temporary budget bill, the government budget It was extended at current levels until 2024, giving lawmakers more time to hammer out the details of an overall budget bill for the new fiscal year that would cover everything from the military to scientific research.

At the same time, some congressional Republicans expressed their displeasure over the fact that the bill does not include a temporary budget, a reduction in government spending, and a budget for border security.

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