US Vice President JD Vance warns the US government against “going to stop”

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US Vice President JD Vance warned that the US government “went to close” this week, after Donald Trump and Congress leaders failed to conclude a deal at a White House crisis meeting.

Speaking to the journalists after the meeting of the Oval Office on Monday afternoon, Vance was accused of the Democrats of preparing the “hostage” government.

“You do not put a pistol on the head of the American people and say, unless you do exactly what the Senate and Democrats of the Senate want you to do, we will close your government.” “I think we are going to stop the operation because the Democrats will not do the right thing.”

Trump and Fais met the majority leader of the Republican Senate John Thun, Republican spokesman Mike Johnson, the minority leader of the Democratic Senate Chuck Schumer and his counterparts in House of Representatives, Hakim Jeffrez, with less than two days until the government is running out of funding.

Congress leaders will need to remove an agreement by the end of Tuesday to avoid the government’s closure starting at 12:01 am on Wednesday.

Republican lawmakers have called for a short -term agreement, or a continuous decision, that would keep the government funded from the current levels until November 21.

Democrats so far refused to support the Republican decision, on the pretext that any agreement needs to be included to support health insurance, which is scheduled to end at the end of the year.

The closure may close public services and signs of hundreds of thousands of federal workers.

But the two sides appeared away from each other after Jeffrez described it as “an explicit and direct discussion” on Monday.

“Democrats are fighting to protect health care of the American people, and we will not support a budget for a party party that continues in the intestine for health care for ordinary Americans, and the full position,” said Jeffrez.

Shomer sought to blame any closure of the president and the Republicans.

“It is up to the Republicans, whether they want to close or not,” Schumer said.

Republicans control the upper Congress room with a margin of 53-47. However, any financing deal will need to support at least 60 Senate members, or at least seven Democrats, in order to meet the alleged Senate rules.

Earlier on Monday, White House press secretary Caroline Levit Fox News told Trump that Trump had “benefited” and was not interested in a compromise.

Levitte said: “The leverage is in the hands of the president because the vast majority of the American public wants to keep the government open.”

Her comments came after Trump CBS News in an interview on a late Sunday: “I don’t know how we will solve this problem.”

The last government closure was in 2018, during the first period of Trump, amid a dispute over the president’s demands for federal financing to build a wall on the borders of the United States and Mexico. This was the longest closure ever, extending 35 days and extending to early 2019.

Historically, the non -essential government workers were subjected to government closure and return to work when recovering funding. But the White House suggested last week that the closure could create an opportunity to launch government workers on a large scale.

In a note distributed late on Wednesday, the management and budget office told the federal agencies “to exploit this opportunity to consider reducing power” or permanent layoffs.