U.s. government shut down: We are prepared for a very long shutdown

The American government goes from Saturday ‘slot’. The Congress and the White House have not agreed on a new state budget. This will make Saturday a number of government departments have to close because there was no money for it.

For a shutdown, stave off, had Friday to midnight an agreement was reached on a new budget. How long is the stop on the expenditure is going to last is not known. Is expected to come to the House of Representatives and the Senate sat morning gathered again.

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The negotiations on the new budget has already run a time slip. The American president Donald Trump wants five billion dollars to pave for the construction of the limes wall. That intention may not be to gain approval of the Democrats in Washington. Trump warned earlier in the day for a closing“, which are very long is going to last’” if the Democrats are against “border security” vote.

It is not the first time that during the presidency of Trump and no timely solution is found for the budget. The last time that the U.s. government ‘lock’ was earlier this year. In February there was a shutdown of a few hours, in January took the situation a couple of days. The time before that was in 2013 during the presidency of Barack Obama. When did hundreds of thousands of civil servants about two weeks, not on their work.

Breaking: The government will partially shut down at midnight tonight, the first time in 40 years it have been closed three times in a year.

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Partial shutdown

From midnight (6 hours Belgian time) will be a part of the federal government remain closed, and thousands of civil servants obliged to sit at home, without pay. It is a partial shutdown because 75 percent of the budget is already approved. Among other things, the budget for the armed forces included that so is not affected. Nine of the fifteen federal ministries, including state Security, Justice, Transportation, Interior, and Foreign affairs and Agriculture are affected.

there will be a total according to a report from the Democrats about 800,000 civil servants without wages falling. Will there 380.000 not want to go to work. Among others, Nasa, the department of Housing and Urban development, the service Tax and 80 percent of the people in the national parks, the work will be the work of him. The other 420.000 employees will for safety reasons of their professional activities must continue but will not be paid. This includes the border police, customs, prison guards and the FBI. Probably they will later be reimbursed for their work on the condition that it is Congress that approves it.