A new “shutdown” avoided in the American Congress, but not for long. The American House of Representatives, then the Senate in the evening, adopted a text on Thursday which postpones this threat for a week.
Elected officials from the most right-wing fringe of Republicans, close to Donald Trump, have so far prevented the adoption of the 2024 federal state budget. The list of potential consequences is long: unpaid air traffic controllers, shut down administrations, frozen food aid, unmaintained national parks.