Published on: 23/12/2022 – 23:03
No “shutdown” in the United States. The 2023 Treasury Bill was voted on Friday, December 23 in the House of Representatives, the day after it passed the Senate. $1,700 billion, which will fund some projects that are among Joe Biden’s priorities. The text must now be signed by the President.
With our correspondent in Washington, Loubna Anaki
It was the last major vote before the House of Representatives went to Republicans earlier this year.
$1,700 billion is the envelope destined for state funding, defense, education, health care or even transportation… It envisages $45 billion in economic, military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
And this text also goes back to a 19th-century law that clearly states that the vice president cannot intervene to prevent the confirmation of election results.
Former President Trump had used the old text’s ambiguity to urge Mike Pence to overturn the 2020 results.
What is remarkable about the vote in the House of Representatives, however, is that the large majority of Republicans voted against it. The text was accepted in a non-partisan manner in the Senate.
Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy spent more than half an hour criticizing the text. A harbinger of partisan strife that threatens to paralyze the work of the House of Representatives once Republicans are in charge.