The Democrats agreed to discuss the completion of the shutdown in the United States. What the media is writing
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Several Democratic senators voted to support an agreement with Republicans to shut down the US federal government. This is the first step towards ending the longest shutdown in the country's history, which has led to a collapse in air travel in recent days. The incident is already being called a split in the Democratic Party. What the world's media write about the development of the political crisis is in the Izvestia digest.
Bloomberg: The Senate is advancing a plan to end the shutdown after the Democrats agree
The US Senate has taken an important step towards reopening the government after a group of moderate Democrats broke with their party's leaders and voted to support an agreement that should end the record shutdown. On the evening of November 9, 60 senators voted in favor of a procedural measure to advance the necessary bill. The Senate has adjourned until Monday and has not yet scheduled a vote on final adoption.
Bloomberg
Under the agreement, Congress will approve annual funding for the Ministries of Agriculture, Veterans Affairs, and Congress itself, as well as finance other agencies until January 30. The bill provides for the payment of compensation to government employees who have been placed on unpaid leave, the resumption of withheld federal payments to states and municipalities, as well as the recall of agency employees who were dismissed during the work stoppage.
It is unclear how quickly the shutdown can be completed. For this, the Senate will need the consent of all its members. Any senator can initiate several days of procedural delays. At the same time, Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson notified lawmakers of the need to return to Washington within 36 hours.
CNN: the unity of the Democrats has disintegrated due to the shutdown
The agreement opened the way for a vote in the Senate, where eight Democratic defectors voted to end the filibuster and overcome the first obstacle to reopening the government after almost six weeks. This step will bring relief to millions of Americans whose lives have been severely disrupted by the shutdown.
CNN
However, this compromise was opposed by some key party leaders, and it has already provoked a storm of protests from progressives, who accuse their more moderate colleagues of a catastrophic retreat that secured victory for President Donald Trump and turned away from millions of Americans who cannot afford a sharp increase in health insurance premiums.
A significant number of Democrats are giving up, having failed to achieve the goal that forced them to postpone a vote on government funding and halt federal operations in early October. At first glance, it looks like a complete failure. The Democrats have not achieved any guarantees for the extension of medical subsidies. Many leading Democrats argued that major victories in recent elections were made possible by the way their candidates effectively criticized Trump over the cost of living. Now, at the first opportunity to put this lesson into practice, they gave up, even though polls showed that the majority of voters blamed Trump for the shutdown and agreed with the Democrats' position.
The New York Times: Democrats will continue to put pressure on Republicans over health insurance
The shutdown has not been completed yet. Sunday's vote by 60 votes to 40 opened the way for the Senate to formally discuss the bill before the final vote. If the Senate approves it, the package must still be passed by the House of Representatives, which is on a long vacation and has not yet set a date for resuming work, and signed by Trump.
The New York Times
For 40 days, Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, maintained the unity of his Democratic faction, while the government shutdown reached record proportions. But this discipline could not be maintained forever and was violated, as the Democrats did not achieve what they said was their main demand in the fight: the extension of health insurance subsidies, which expire at the end of the year. A group of moderate senators [from the Democratic Party] who opposed their party said they could no longer delay the deal while Americans suffered the consequences of the government shutdown.
The political upside for Democrats is that Republicans will now come under pressure over health insurance subsidies. They will either have to adopt this measure or respond to the voters, who, according to polls, overwhelmingly favor it. If the shutdown ends, all attention will turn to the promised Republican vote on extending tax breaks for health care, and the Democrats have made it clear that they intend to continue to exert pressure on this issue.
Axios: the Senate agreement will cancel layoffs caused by the shutdown
The agreement reached in the Senate will cancel the mass layoffs that began during the government shutdown and guarantee the payment of salaries to government employees who went on unpaid leave. These provisions block the White House's efforts to reduce the number of federal employees during the shutdown. The bill will repeal more than 4,000 termination notices sent to federal employees in October and contains provisions prohibiting the use of budget funds to make further cuts before January 30.
Axios
This is a victory for the Democrats, federal employees and their unions, who managed to temporarily stop production cuts through the courts. And this is a loss for the chairman of the Office of Administration and Budget, Russell Vaught, who stated that he wanted to lay off up to 10,000 federal employees.
The bill contains a provision guaranteeing the payment of wage arrears to federal employees who have been placed on unpaid leave. Last month, the Budget and Budget Department published an internal memo stating that there were no guarantees of payment of wage arrears to these employees. However, nothing prevents the White House from starting staff cuts in February.
Reuters: delays and cancellations of flights in the United States are growing due to a shortage of air traffic controllers
On November 9, the most difficult day since the start of the shutdown, flights of hundreds of thousands of travelers were delayed or canceled. U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy warned that the situation could worsen in the run-up to Thanksgiving on November 27. Airlines canceled more than 2,800 flights to the United States and delayed more than 10,200 on the third day of government-imposed cuts due to a growing shortage of air traffic control personnel.
Reuters
The government shutdown, which reached a record 40 days, has led to a shortage of air traffic controllers, who, like other federal employees, have not been paid for weeks. "It's only going to get worse... two weeks before Thanksgiving, air travel will be reduced to a minimum," Duffy said on CNN's "State of the Union."
Duffy said he has no plans to cancel flight reductions until air traffic controllers start returning to work and safety data improves. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has instructed airlines to reduce daily flights by 4% starting Friday at 40 major airports due to security concerns. The reduction in the number of flights should reach 6% by November 11, and then reach 10% by November 14.
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