The standoff between congressional Democrats and Republicans ended yesterday after the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate passed a continuing resolution to end the federal government shutdown.<\/p>\n
Members of the U.S. Congress agreed in the wee hours yesterday on a continuing resolution to run the federal government for three more weeks. Hours later, U.S. President Donald J. Trump signed it into law.<\/p>\n
Passing through the U.S. Senate with a vote of 81-18, the three-day federal government shutdown ended after agreements between both parties in the Senate resulted in Republicans promising to address those affected by the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals. Immigrants under the protection of the program could possibly face deportation since U.S. Donald J. Trump rescinded the program last September 2017. DACA was set to end early March 2018. <\/p>\n
In a statement, Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan (Ind-MP) said this was the first in modern times where a political party had control of the presidency and a majority of U.S. Congress seats but still struggled to pass a spending bill.<\/p>\n
\u201cConstant stopgap spending bills are no way to run the government. We still do not have a long-term spending bill to address our defense and domestic priorities,\u201d said Sablan, adding that the bipartisan conflicts were rooted in the lack of funding for veterans\u2019 infrastructure and services; re-authorization of community health centers and health extenders; addressing the opioid epidemic; saving Americans\u2019 pensions; securing funding for disaster-struck areas such as Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, and more; a budget that funds the military and the domestic investments; and protecting Dreamers, or individuals who entered the U.S. under the DACA program.<\/p>\n
\u201cCongressional Democrats have been fighting for increases in funding for defense as well as domestic priorities, which we have proposed to the Republicans and sent to the President,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe continue to propose bipartisan solutions. While today\u2019s vote once again ends the shutdown, it does not diminish our leverage to pass funding for what\u2019s important to the American people,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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