After Friday, does the US federal government really face another shutdown?

According to American reports, the US government is once again facing a crisis of closure! Midnight this Friday is the deadline for the two parties in Congress to reach an agreement on the government budget. In order to avoid a government shutdown, both sides must make breakthroughs on four major issues, including immigration.

Upper limit of expenditure

At present, the upper limit of government expenditure is the agreement reached at 20 1 1, and both the Democratic Party and the * * * Party hope to raise the upper limit of government expenditure; * * * and the party wants to increase the defense budget, while the Democratic Party says that if defense expenditure is to be increased, internal expenditure must be increased in proportion. At present, the leaders of the two houses have been discussing the spending ceiling for several weeks. Both sides said that the negotiations are progressing smoothly, but the details of the negotiations are not disclosed at present.

Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House of Representatives, also expressed optimism that the two parties would finally reach an agreement. However, he reminded that even if the two parties reach an agreement to raise the spending ceiling, the appropriations committees of the two houses will need time to draft the bill. In other words, Congress may pass a short-term spending plan before Friday to give Congress time to process the draft budget.

Dream life

The Dream Act is a deferred repatriation program (DACA) for those who arrived in the United States as children. The bill was put forward by former US President Barack Obama when he was in office, and allowed to suspend the repatriation of undocumented immigrants under 16 who entered the United States before 2007. This group is also called "dreamer" in America. Trump announced the termination of the DACA program last year and asked Congress to pass the replacement bill before March 5 this year. The future of 800 thousand "dream students" is uncertain. Democrats still stand firm, saying that they will definitely reject the government appropriation bill that does not contain the DACA agreement. * * * told the party to separate the immigration agreement from the expenditure agreement.

Last Friday, people from both parties went to the White House for consultations, and initially decided to grant citizenship to dream students, allocate 2.7 billion US dollars to strengthen border defense, and implement a new visa program to attract people from countries with low immigration rates to the United States. However, Trump rejected the plan and said on Twitter that it was "weird and retrogressive". Trump tweeted on Monday: "Democratic Senator Dick Durbin completely misinterpreted what I said at the DACA meeting. If there is a lack of trust, the bipartisan immigration agreement cannot be reached! " Trump tweeted the day before: "DACA may be dead, because Democrats don't really want it, they just desperately want to get money from the military."

Du Bin previously confirmed that when talking about resuming some projects to help immigrants from Haiti and African countries, Trump used vulgar words for these countries and regions. As the second leader of the Democratic Party, Du Bin has been committed to protecting the interests of "dream catchers". In an interview with a Chicago reporter, he said: "At the meeting to discuss the US immigration policy, I only cared about one thing from beginning to end, and that is the future of these dream catchers in the United States."

Disaster assistance

There are also serious differences between the party and the Democratic Party in terms of assistance to Texas and Florida, which were hit by three major hurricanes last year. Last month, the House of Representatives agreed to allocate $86,543.8+billion to help California, which was ravaged by wildfires, and several southern states hit by hurricanes to rebuild. But the Senate refused to agree, because Democrats believed that the amount of disaster relief was still insufficient.

Lawmakers in Florida and Texas have taken a tough stance on this issue, saying that unless the disaster relief funds are approved as soon as possible, they will not support the spending bill to ensure the operation of the government.

health insurance

Compared with other issues, the differences between the two parties on this issue are the smallest. CHIP is a federal program that supports nearly 9 million children from low-income families whose parents can't afford insurance. The subsidy for this program will expire on September 30, and Congress has approved a short-term subsidy program to prevent the state government from running out of funds. Congress agreed to allocate long-term funds for the plan, but there were different opinions on how to subsidize the plan, which cost $6,543.8+$04.5 billion a year.

In addition, the funding for community medical centers serving about 25 million low-income people will expire on September 30, and there are differences between the two parties on how to use this fund. If no agreement can be reached, 28,000 centers will be closed and about 50,000 employees will lose their jobs.