White House says the dismissals to start “immediately”

The massive dismissals of US federal workers will start within two days, says the White House, as legislators are guilty of the government’s first exclusion in almost seven years.

The exclusion began on Wednesday after Republicans and Democrats in Congress failed to achieve a new cost plan before midnight.

There is a small sign that on both sides they are ready to compromise and the vote to stop the braking has failed only hours after it started.

Since then, the Senate has been postponed, fearing that stopping can intensify and threaten hundreds of thousands of jobs, as well as the risk of costing the US economy billions lost productions.

At a White House briefing on Wednesday afternoon, Vice President JD Vance made a rare appearance along with the press secretary Carolyn Levitt and accused Democrats of playing political games.

“If they are so worried about the effect they have on the American people and they must be what they have to do is reopen the government, not complain about how we react,” he said.

Levitt, meanwhile, said the mass cuts of work would happen within two days. “Sometimes you have to do things you don’t want to do,” she said, adding that “Democrats put us in this position.”

It was the last digging in what was a bitter guilt between the two countries, with the best Senate Democrat Chuck Sumerianly accused Republicans of trying to “harass” the Democrats to accept their financing plan.

Democrats want to provide guarantees for healthcare financing before agreeing to a cost deal, while Republicans want to use a temporary stop measure to keep the government open until mid -November and be funded at current levels.

Democrats said they had allowed the government to close in an attempt to negotiate saving health benefits for lower income Americans. They said efforts to negotiate with Republicans over these benefits have been unsuccessful so far.

“Why are they boycotting the negotiations? I have never witnessed it in my life,” says Senator Chris Murphy, a Democrat of Connecticut, for Republicans. “The point is that the government will open when Republicans are dealing with this, talking to the Democrats.”

Meanwhile, Republicans – who control both Congress palaces, but do not have the 60 votes needed to adopt a funding bill – said these health benefits are not a priority, the government’s maintenance is open.

“It’s not about who wins or who is losing or who is accused and all that,” said Senate leader John Tun. “It’s about the American people. And (the Democrats) have taken the American people hostage in a way that they believe are beneficial.”

Republicans also claim that the expansion of healthcare that Democrats are looking for will cost American taxpayers more money and are designed to manage the complexity of the Covid era that no longer exists.

Main workers such as border agents and the military can be forced to work without paying for the moment – but government officials consider insignificant, temporarily put on unpaid leave. In the past, these workers were then paid retrospectively.

Analysts expect this stop to be more than the last in 2018, when Congress adopted some funding bills. They expect approximately 40% of federal workers – about 750,000 people – to be released on temporary leave.

Some workers were extinguished on Wednesday. But the Trump administration also threatened the constant cuts of federal workers.

“Let us be honest if this thing is dragged,” Vance said during a briefing on Wednesday, “We will have to dismiss people.”

Vance also claims – many times denied by the Democrats – that stopping is the result of higher democrats who advocate for health benefits that need to be expanded to undocumented migrants.

The US Law is already prohibiting undocumented migrants from receiving any federal subsidized healthcare cover. “Nowhere did the Democrats suggest that we were interested in a change in federal law,” said the leader of minorities in the Hake Hakem Jeffrries.

Russell Water, the White House budget chief, informs the Republicans behind the closed doors of how the upcoming cuts may look, although the public details of these plans are scarce.

On the Capitol hill there was a little appetite for a deal to end the opposition on Wednesday.

“We have nothing to negotiate. There is nothing we can take out of this bill to make it more built or cleaner than it is,” said the Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson.

Another vote for the short -term funding bill proposed by Republicans is expected on Friday.

With additional reporting from Bernd Debusmann JR in the White House

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