By Claire Foren, Lauren Fox, Morgan Rimmer and Ted Barrett. CNN
There is still no clear way to prevent a partial official government shutdown at the end of the week, until the Congress runs within the deadline for a major funding, only five days.
The MPs had expected to release the lesson of a bilateral expenses on Sunday evening, but the bill is yet to be unveiled. High-level disagreements on policy issues, house speaker Mike Johnson, remains as a Louisiana Republican, under immense pressure from his right flank to fight for conservative victory.
As soon as the clock surpasses the time limit, Senate Democrats on Monday expressed anger and frustration at the rising risk of closing, as the House Republican criticized the deadlock.
“What’s wrong with these people? It is a centrally said that Congress should do,” Sen Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts told CNN’s Manu Raju. “Republican can not only organize itself to sign the basic work that they are going to do.
Sen John Tester, a weak Montana Democrat for the reunion of this cycle, was attached to CNN about a possible shutdown.
“Not better,” he told Raju. “We are doing this every six months. This is a bullsh*T. This is just Bulsh*T. And so we need to do what we were elected to do, fund the government, do not stop it. ,
West Virginia Democrat, Sen Joe Manchin said, “I swear on God, it’s a sin to what is going on, and the games that are being played with American people and all people who are dependent on the services of the federal government, and we cannot even do our work.”
Chak Shumor, a prominent leader of a Democrat Senate, a New York Democrat, warned of the risk of a closure in a “dear colleague” letter on Sunday, and said that “intensive discussion” with Johnson and other prominent MPs is going on.
Shumar blamed the chaos for delays within the House Republican Conference, while writing, “While we expected the law to be prepared at the end of this week, who would give enough time to the members to review the lesson, it is clear that the House Republican needs longer to resolve itself.”
Johnson later wrote on social media on Sunday and took a swing on the criticism of the House GOP, “Despite the reverse rhetoric in leader Shoomar, the House has worked nonstop, and continues to work in good faith, compromise in advance of deadline to compromise with the Senate on the funding bills of the government.”
Senate minority leader Mich McConel warned on Monday that a partial shutdown would be “harmful to the country”, and argued that it is “completely avoidable” if the House and Senate could work together.
Separately, McConel told reporters at the capital, “We are not going to allow the government to close.”
The Congress is facing a pair of shutdown deadline on March 1 and 8-after passing the short-term funding bill in January.
The President Joe Biden will call the top four Congress leaders on Tuesday, as the White House pressures Ukraine to pass additional funding and is ahead of the deadline for partial government shutdowns.
The senators return to Washington, DC on Monday evening, but will not return home by Wednesday, except for a very short time than Friday’s deadline.
In the Senate, to prevent partial shutdowns, there will be a need to compromise with the consent of all 100 senators to move any law fast before the time limit.
An important question in the week’s program is that when the Senate was impeached by the House Republican this month, the security secretary of the Homeland will work on the articles of impeachment against Alejandro Mekorus.
This is not yet clear when the articles will be sent from the House to the Senate. A source familiar with the conversation told CNN that two chambers were discussing on time, but no decisions were yet taken.
At home, Johnson has very few space to maneuver because he historically faces a narrow majority and a fast combative flicker. Tension is fixed to move even further on the government funding fight.
Hardline conservatives revolted over the passage of the first stopgap funding bills of the chamber and on a topline deal, the speaker hit Shumar with Shumar, which spends a total of $ 1.66 trillion.
In January, a group of fundamentalists staged a rebellion on the floor of the House, in which Johnson tanned a procedural vote to arrive with Shumar.
Johnson won Gaval after taking out former house speaker Kevin Macarthi in a historic vote last year, raising the question whether Louisiana Republican could face a similar threat against his speechship at some point.
The funding extends to a series of government agencies on 1 March, including agriculture, energy, transport, veteran matters and departments of housing and urban development as well as military construction such as food and drug administration and other priorities.
An additional set of government agencies and programs is funded through 8 March, including justice, commerce, defense, homeland security, state, education, internal and health and human services -environmental protection agency and legislative branch.
The federal government has already started taking steps to prepare for a possible shutdown. Each department and agency have their own set of plans and procedures.
The guidance includes information about how many employees will be furlled, which employees are necessary and will work without payment, how long it will take to air the operation in hours before the shutdown, and which activities will stop.
This story has been updated with additional development.
CNN’s Manu Raju, Sam Fosum, Melanie Zanona, Heli Talbot, Betsi Klein, Tammy Luhbi and Prisila Alvarez contributed to the report.