The US government closes with the failure of legislators to reach the deal

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The United States government has closed for the first time in nearly seven years, threatened hundreds of thousands of jobs and transferred Washington to one of the largest of them political Donald Trump’s second crises.

The closure, which started after midnight in Washington on Wednesday, came after Republicans and Democrats failed to conclude an agreement to finance the federal government in the new fiscal year.

Federal agencies are expected to launch the sweeping signals of employees and expand the scope of public services.

In a series of votes late on Tuesday, the Senate and Democrats rejected competing proposals that would prevent closure. The closure is expected to lead to a license, which number about 750,000 workers, and the American economy may cost billions of lost production.

The closure will also make more difficult for policy makers and investors to measure the strength of the economy as major reports were delayed, including closely monitored job data that were due on Friday.

During the closure, the federal government stopped all unnecessary jobs, while employees whose work considers work necessary, such as active military personnel and federal law enforcement employees, are required to submit a report to work, often without pay.

The Democrats urged the signing of a continuous decision, or the management of the stopping of the gap, which would have kept the government funded from the current levels until November 21. Democratic leaders have argued that any financing deal should include an extension of health care support due at the end of the year.

All Democratic Senate members voted with the exception of three Democratic members against Republican decision, which means that this measure is less than the 60 sound threshold required to pass the Supreme Congress Chamber.

On Tuesday, Trump had warned Democrats against voting on the arrest of the gap and a threat to launch a “many” government workers if closed, instead of the usual procedure of temporarily subjecting public workers.

“Democrats want to close it,” Trump told reporters at the Oval Office. “When you close it, you have to do hairstyles, so we will drop many people who will be affected very.”

Democratic leaders of Capitol Hill insisted that any financing deal should reflect $ 1TN in discounts to medicaid, a health insurance plan for low -income Americans, which was part of Trump’s leading spending bill this summer.

The last time the United States government was closed during the first Trump administration, from December 2018 to January 2019. The closure lasted for more than a month and led to a leave of about 800,000 workers.

Non -party Congress budget office said on Tuesday that it is expected to be subjected to about 750,000 workers this time, at a cost of about $ 400 million per day.

CBO estimated that the last closure reduced economic production by $ 11 billion, including $ 3 billion that has never been restored.

But the Central Bank of Oman said that the effects of another comment on the commercial activity were “unconfirmed”, and it will partially depend on whether the administration had sought to shoot instead of workers.

The dilemma in Washington was extracted from the silent response from investors, as the dollar decreased by 0.1 percent against a basket of major currencies and returning on the treasury apartment for 10 years by 4.19 percent. Futures in the S& P 500 index fell 0.4 percent.

The majority of the Republican Senate John Thun said late on Tuesday that he intends to get more votes after Wednesday to try to pass Republicans’ continuing decision to reopen the government.

“Maybe Democrats have chosen the government’s closure tonight. But we can reopen it tomorrow,” Thun said. “All that is required is a handful of Democrats to join Republicans to pass the clean and non -partisan financing bill before us.”

“Certainly ready” to more negotiations with Thun, other congressional leaders and the White House. But he added that the talks need to be “from both parties” and “they have real inputs from both sides.”

Additional reports by Claire Jones in Washington