Senator Schumer would support a law limiting shutdown

The leader of the democratic minority in the Senate, Chuck Schumer announced their support of the bill put forward by Senator mark Warner, which presupposes automatic extension of Government funding at the level of the previous year. In case of shutdown, cessation of funding will apply only to legislative bodies and the presidential administration. This idea is supported by Republican senators from whom a similar project has nominated Rob Portman.

Sen. Chuck Schumer: «I am supporting legislation that will make sure we never have another shutdown again.» https://t.co/6pxFdZ8wvg pic.twitter.com/zeOiV7aukv

— The Hill (@thehill) January 28, 2019

Last week Donald trump and Democrats agreed to restore the work of the Government for three weeks. Trump has already stated that it can last shutdown, when further negotiations came to nothing lead. Lawmakers apparently want to minimize the effect of possible future of the next shutdown. Mark Warner expressed on Twitter optimism about the possibility of rapid adoption of the bill: «it Seems that we have an agreement to put an end to this senseless closure, which caused harm to many Americans. Let’s make sure it never happens again.»

It looks like we have a deal to end this pointless shutdown that has harmed so many Americans. Let’s make sure this never happens again.

— Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) January 25, 2019

In its current form shutdown affects all Federal employee. The last has just ended, the shutdown put it on the brink of survival, hundreds of thousands of workers and hampered the work of various departments.

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