The Senate could not agree to extend the temporary funding of the government

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On Sunday, Republicans and Democrats exchanged jabs, blaming each other for the partial shutdown of government agencies, writes “Voice of America«.

The leader of the Republican majority in the Senate appointed a vote on Monday to resume the work of the US government in full on Monday 12.

Lawmakers will be asked to decide on government funding for at least another three weeks.

Leaders and members of both parties spent Sunday meeting and negotiating, and hope to find a way out of the impasse over immigration that led to the closure of the government.

However, how serious progress has been made is not clear.

Immigration is a stumbling block

Earlier Sunday, moderate Republican Senator Susan Collins told reporters that a group of 22 colleagues was determined to find a solution.

Republican Sen. Lindsay Graham said that Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell should have an “understanding” that after passing the government’s provisional funding law, the Senate should consider immigration within a long-term budget.

The House of Representatives approved a bill to finance the federal government last week.

But Democratic senators refuse to support him, demanding the adoption of measures to protect the “dreamers” - young immigrants who were illegally brought to the United States in childhood.

Republicans say they will not negotiate on immigration issues until the government resumes full work.

Both sides accuse each other of closing the government, because of which state institutions only perform critical work, because they have no authority to spend money.

The head of the republican majority Mitch McConnell called the demands of the Democrats for the protection of "dreamers" "a gigantic political miscalculation." According to McConnell, the problem of the “dreamers” is not an emergency, since President Trump gave the legislators time before March 5 to find a solution to the problem of young immigrants.

Following Trump, McConnell called the closure of the government (“shatdaun”) “Shumerov's shatdaun” - named after Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer.

In turn, Schumer called the opposition "Tramp shatdaunom."

He accused the president that a few days ago the head of state agreed to sign an agreement on immigration, and then changed his mind a few hours later. Schumer said that during a meeting at the White House, he proposed an agreement to Trump that would finance the construction of a wall on the border with Mexico in exchange for measures to protect the “dreamers”.

“In fact, I gave the president what he wanted (the wall) in exchange for what we both wanted (to protect immigrants from deportation),” said Schumer. “But he doesn’t accept yes as an answer.”

Senator Graham on Sunday laid the blame for the stalemate in the immigration debate on the White House, and especially on Trump adviser Stephen Miller, who is a hard liner.

“Every time we make a proposal, it’s just discarded by staff,” Graham said on Sunday. “As long as Steven Miller is responsible for negotiations on immigration issues, we will not come anywhere.”

According to Graham, Miller's immigration views do not fit into the main trend. The White House has not yet commented on Graham’s words.

"It is gratifying to see how resolutely Republicans are fighting for our military and for border security," President Trump tweeted on Sunday. “Democrats just want uncontrolled flows of illegal immigrants to go to our country.”

In the meantime, federal agencies are preparing to send employees on administrative leave and cease much of their work if lawmakers do not come to an agreement.

In recent years, the US government has been partially closed several times due to the failure of the budget. The last time this happened was in 2013, because of the stalemate in the inter-party debate about health care. Then the government remained closed for 16 days, and about 850 thousands of civil servants were sent on unpaid leave.

What kind of work will be suspended and which will continue? There is no clear answer to these questions. However, federal research projects may be suspended, national parks and museums closed, payments of tax refunds and consideration of applications for registration of disability to former military personnel are postponed, as well as federal food aid programs are suspended. All this took place in the 2013 year.

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