“Trump proposed “significant changes to the bill”, but the House of Representatives failed to approve it in a vote on Thursday”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
Now the document should have time to vote in the Senate.
366 legislators supported the resolution, 34 spoke against it, and one abstained. The vote took place on the evening of Friday, December 20, after a failed attempt to advance a bipartisan bill that would have provided temporary budget funding for three months. Although Democrats and Republicans in Congress reached an agreement on it, the document was opposed by Elon Musk, as well as President-elect Donald Trump, effectively blocking its passage.
Trump proposed “significant changes to the bill,” but the House of Representatives failed to approve it on Thursday’s vote. At least 38 Republicans, including conservatives, spoke against it, which came as a surprise to the president-elect. His fellow party members did not support the sharp change in policy of Trump, who had previously criticized the increase in the US debt limit and now proposed to cancel these limits for two years.
During Friday, the legislators did not reach an agreement on the three-month draft law, so they took the path of least resistance, passing a resolution on temporary financing of the government at the level of the previous year with some additions. The resolution is designed for the period until March 14.
In the US, the fiscal year runs from October 1 to September 30. In conditions where the budget for the current fiscal year has not been passed by Congress and not signed by the president, funding of federal agencies is usually carried out on the basis of resolutions on the temporary continuation of appropriations at the level of the previous fiscal year.