US House of Representatives approved this Saturday a stopgap measure to fund the federal government for 45 days and avoid an imminent administration shutdown at midnight – a rule that also must be approved by the Senate’s Democratic majority.

The proposal was announced Saturday morning by Lower House President Kevin McCarthy, a Republican. received a total of 334 upvotes209 Democratic and 125 Republican congressmen hold a majority in the House of Representatives.

Total 91 Republicans voted againstMany of them belong to a group of former President Donald Trump’s supporters called the Freedom Caucus, also known as MAGA, who continue to fight McCarthy for being too moderate.

“I don’t want to be part of a team that thinks the only option is to shut down and not pay our troops,” McCarthy said at a news conference after the vote. He prefers, he added, “to be part of a conservative group that wants everything to be resolved“.

For his part, Democratic Minority Leader in the Lower House Hakeem Jeffries said that over the past 24 hours the situation has gone beyond “devastating cuts that could impact healthcare security and the economic well-being of the American people” to “a spending agreement that meets the needs of the American people across the board.”

“Republican MAGA extremists (the name given to the “Make America Great Again” slogan that former President Trump used in his first election campaign) lost. “This was a victory for the American people and a total surrender,” he said.

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Now this norm will have to be voted on in the Senate with a democratic majority, which need until midnight to avoid government shutdown this will have serious consequences for the functioning of the executive branch as well as for its economy.

It was the Senate that was preparing to vote on its own norm, which also sought to temporarily avoid a government shutdownbut they will finally vote, expected in the next few hours, on the legislation approved by the lower house.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer He has not yet said when a vote on the project will be held.while Republican senators signal he will move forward: “There is growing hope that we can avoid a shutdown,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said.

The measure passed this Saturday, once approved by the Senate, will allow money to flow to government agencies through mid-November, and will also maintain funding for disaster recovery, but will not include new funding for Ukraine or the border.

These two were the points of greatest friction between the Democrats and Republicans and, ultimately, McCarthy. he decided to remove them from the playing field achieve bipartisan support despite the rejection of his party’s radicals.

Starting this midnight the government will run out of funds Most government offices, museums, and national parks will close, and 1.3 million soldiers and hundreds of thousands of government employees will lose their pay.

In addition, according to Goldman Sachs, the closure could impact the US economy. reduction in gross domestic product (GDP) from 0.15 to 0.2 percentage points. for every week that lasts.

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McCarthy tried unsuccessfully to pass the bill on Friday which would have funded the administration for another month, until October 31, but contained restrictions on asylum programs and cuts to everything except border security.

Democrats who oppose these border provisions and conservative Republicans who voted against the project. They reject any measures to maintain the functioning of the administration. and they are following instructions from Trump, who this week called on them to resist and shut down the government.

Many Freedom Caucus members They opposed McCarthy’s appointment as Republican majority leader. in the Lower House in January and even set conditions for his appointment, including changing the rules so that any Republican could call a vote to remove him.

In June, when the United States was on the verge of defaulting on its sovereign debt, McCarthy reaches agreement with President Joe Biden whereby Congress allowed the executive branch to continue to borrow money to pay off its debts, but in exchange for specific restrictions on government spending.

Lawmakers Friendly to Trump They felt betrayed by this agreement and now they are asking for more cuts. Specifically, they are seeking to set a government spending cap of $1.47 trillion for fiscal year 2024, representing a cut of $120 billion more than what was agreed upon. (EFE)