Washington_ The US Congress’ approval of a Resolution of Continuity (RC) that grants temporary financing to avoid the closing of the Government's federal agencies, marked the newsy week in United States, CubaSà publishes.
The project foresees to assign financial resources to the official entities up to December 9th, because the Capitol haven’t still endorsed the budget for the whole fiscal year 2017.
The initiative was sanctioned on Wednesday by the Camera of Representatives with 342 votes at favor and 85 in against and sent to the White House for the president Barack Obama to sign it.
The legislators agreed in that way to dedicate a thousand 100 million dollars to combat Zika virus, as well as 500 thousand dollars to help people damaged by floods in Louisiana, Western Virginia and Maryland.
The document also assigns money for Pentagon’s programs and for the veterans of war, and the rest of the negotiations on the resources for AF-2017 will be carried out after the general elections of November 8th.
The delay in approving the RC was because the contradictions in relation to the way of financing the repairs to the aqueduct systems of aqueduct of the locality of Fllint, Michigan, polluted with a high lead level, on which there was a last minute arrangement.
This agreement and the voting of Wednesday were possible after 24 hours of almost uninterrupted negotiations, led by the president of the Camera of Representatives, republican Paul Ryan, and the leader of the democratic minority in that chamber, Nancy Pelosi.
The Senate has endorsed its version of this proposal some hours before, the same day, with 72 votes at favor and 26 in against. It includes similar paragraphs to that of the low Camera and resources to fight against the crisis of opioides overdose, among other provisions.
The approval of this measure avoids the closing of the government entities for lack of resources starting from today, and it allows the congress members to move to their respective states during the next days to work in function of the electoral campaign.
If the Capitol had not approved this proposal, most of the programs of the whole federal Government would be without money starting from this Saturday, and only the 'indispensable' employees would continue working without remuneration.
This resolution allowed to avoid a similar situation that took place in October of 2013, when the legislators could not approve the budget on time and around 800 thousand workers were forced to cease their works for several weeks, under a license without salary.
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