In the new year, Republicans will continue to control Washington. On Thursday, the house of representatives averted a temporary shutdown of the government in adopting the interim budget and passing it to the Senate.
An emergency measure will keep funding the Pentagon and other government agencies until January 19, after which legislators still have to take the full budget. For a temporary document voted 231 Congressman, against 188. If they failed to reach consensus, the shutdown would occur by midnight Friday.
Recall that the appropriate measures are taken in the absence of an agreed to period of the budget. In connection with the government shutdown thousands of Federal employees go on forced leave, and the state authorities at the time lose their funding. For ordinary Americans, it is fraught with troubles as the inability to take credit, extend the expiration date of the passport, to obtain your tax refund and even visit national parks, museums and monuments of culture — in such cases access to them is closed.
Note that in Thursday in addition to the time budget of the members of the house of representatives approved additional expenditure: in particular, agreed to allocate from the Federal budget of $2.1 billion to provide emergency assistance Department of veterans and $81 billion for the restoration of Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and California, affected by natural disasters.
