Drohender «Shutdown» in den USA: Senat legt Kompromiss vor
Der Senat in den USA hat im Haushaltsstreit einen Kompromissvorschlag geäussert.
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00:00 The Senate in the USA has expressed a compromise proposal in the House of Representatives.
00:05 A draft for a short-term transition agreement was approved.
00:10 A few days before a threatening suspension of government affairs in the USA, the Senate in the House of Representatives proposed a compromise.
00:19 On Tuesday evening, the Senators voted in a first-run party vote with 77 to 19 votes for the draft of a short-term transition agreement, according to US media reports.
00:33 This would guarantee the funding of federal authorities at least until 17 November and thus reverse the already threatening shutdown at this weekend.
00:43 The proposal, which still has to be voted on in the Senate, also includes 6 billion dollars, around 5.7 billion euros, in additional aid for Ukraine and disaster relief after the floods and fires in the USA.
00:59 Whether this compromise will also happen in the House of Representatives is questionable.
01:05 The term of the budget decided by the US Congress at the end of last year ends with the end of this month.
01:13 So until the end of September, a new budget must be decided to reverse the inability to pay.
01:20 The political turmoil repeats itself every year, usually the Congress helps itself with the approval of a transition budget and then argues again in a few months about the financing of government affairs.
01:33 A compromise is usually only made just before the deadline, which is part of the political power meeting in Washington.
01:40 The situation is special this time, because the Republicans only have a small majority in the House of Representatives and the fraction is very fragmented.
01:50 The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Republican Kevin McCarthy, was only sworn in in January in the 15th election and is under great pressure from the radical rights in his faction.
02:03 They are at odds with the household talks.
02:06 In the Senate, the Democrats have a small majority from US President Joe Biden.