Employees are still worried as the government reopens. Will the government shut down again in January next year?
Employees are still worried as the government reopens. Will the government shut down again in January next year? Federal employees furloughed due to the government shutdown were asked to return to work Thursday. Stop...
The government reopens and employees are still worried. Will the government shut down again in January next year? Federal employees furloughed due to the government shutdown were asked to return to work Thursday. National parks and government agencies that were closed have also resumed normal operations. Yet many employees are still nervous about government funding. Many government employees are worried that the government's opening is only temporary. After all, the federal government will only receive new budget funds until January 15, 2014. They are worried that the government will not be able to find a better solution before then and will shut down again. Manuel Avitia, an Internal Revenue Service employee in Glendale, said, "We have loans, house rent, tuition loans, and children's day care expenses to pay, and these will not stop because of the government shutdown." He said he was happy to return to work and see the local debt agreement, even if it is only a temporary solution. Avitiya also said that he has begun an "economic crisis": "The question now is 'when', when will we get paid, we all have debts to pay off. I recently received an online check for only $10, so I am a little worried." Like Avitiya, many federal employees are tightening their belts and preparing for the worst-case scenario that officials in Washington may bring. Until a longer-term and stable budget deal is passed, those employees won't be able to rest assured. And some government contractor workers were unable to get their paychecks during the government shutdown on the 16th. Taylor, an employee of a NASA contractor company, said: "I think if government employees can get paid on the 16th, so can government contractor employees." She is very worried that the government may shut down again in mid-January next year: "Those regulators have not lost. The people who really suffer are the hard-working people in the United States." " According to the Associated Press report on the Chinese website of the United States: There are no winners in the government shutdown. As the two parties argue for their own interests, the more than two weeks of government shutdown makes people wonder, who is the biggest loser in this fight? On Thursday, White House spokesman Carney said, "There are no winners in this war. "The international prestige and political credibility of the United States have been damaged step by step with this government shutdown farce. According to the latest poll results from the Pew Center, 81% of the American people are dissatisfied with the direction of this country. The disunity within the Republicans was ridiculed by the outside world, Obama faced the embarrassing situation of having his credit rating downgraded, and the United States' reputation as a safe haven for the world's financial security was destroyed by himself. Republicans hoped to take this opportunity to attack Obamacare, but in the end, Obama's determination to never give in overshadowed the Republican Party, which further intensified the divisions within the Republican Party. Firm conservative members and some pragmatic Republicans in the House of Representatives almost had an open split, forcing the caucus leadership to twice withdraw the plan it originally planned to propose. The second time, they even asked the members to go home and wait for a decision from the caucus leadership on how to proceed on Wednesday. John A. Boehner, a Republican from Ohio. Boehner, because he failed to effectively control the situation, may only have a name in vain after this two-party war. Under the new agreement, the federal government will receive budget funds until January 15, 2014, and the debt ceiling will be raised to February 7, 2014. However, this short-term solution may pave the way for the government's future wars. Obama's pledge to eliminate differences between the two parties seems to be out of reach, and the core tasks that he once ambitiously accomplished in his second term have also been delayed by the government shutdown. The Senate's performance in this war has been praised by many people. Despite the internal differences between the two parties, under the effective leadership of Majority Leader Harry Reid and Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, a timely compromise was reached. Ratings agency S&P announced on Wednesday that the U.S. government shutdown caused U.S. GDP to fall by at least 0.6 percentage points, or $24 billion, in the fourth quarter. S&P said that politicians in Washington reached a short-term agreement and then negotiate for a long-term agreement, which may increase consumer confidence, especially those civil servants who were temporarily "furloughed" during the government shutdown.
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