The US Senate will hold a key vote on the bipartisan proposal of Congress on the 24th. (Source: Visual China)
Overseas network on January 23 because the US Congress has not yet reached an agreement on the issue of border wall appropriations, the US government shutdown continues. The US Senate decided to hold a key vote on two proposals aimed at ending the government shutdown on Thursday (24th) local time, one of which was proposed by the Republican Party and the other by the Democratic Party.
According to CNN, the US Senate Minority Leader Schumer said in a speech on the 22nd that lawmakers have reached agreement on holding two key votes. One of the votes was aimed at a bill for Senate Republicans to fund u.S. President Donald Trump's construction of a border wall to reopen the government. Another vote, a Bill introduced by Democrats and passed in the House of Representatives, calls for allowing the government to reopen without providing funding for the border wall.
For the proposal to pass, it would have to get 60 votes in favor, but neither proposal is expected to pass the vote. Why? In the U.S. Senate, Republicans have 53 seats and Democrats have 47 seats. For a Republican proposal to pass a vote in the Senate, seven Democrats would have to change their stance, but that's nearly unlikely. For a Democratic proposal to pass the Senate, it would take 13 Republicans to change their positions, which is also quite unlikely.
Senate Majority Leader McConnell spokesman Stewart told the media on the 22nd that although the Senate will hold a vote on Thursday, McConnell will not support the bill proposed by the House of Representatives.
Trump has asked for $5.7 billion to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border as a major achievement in the bid for re-election in 2020, while Democrats, who have a majority in the House of Representatives, have agreed to only $1.3 billion. Because Congress and Trump could not agree on the spending bill, some U.S. government agencies were forced to close their doors in the early morning of December 22, 2018. The shutdown involved nine major departments, including the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Agriculture, and affected the work and lives of more than 800,000 federal employees.
A poll conducted by Npsos, a national public radio and market research agency, showed that three-quarters of Americans believe that the government shutdown has "embarrassed" the United States. Nearly 70 percent of respondents believe that a government shutdown will cause damage to the country and the economy. (Overseas Network Yao Kaihong)
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