US President Donald Trump abandoned the idea of ​​temporarily ceasing the government's shutdown to try to finance the wall on the country's southern border. According to the Washington Examiner, the corresponding proposal to the head of state was presented by Republican Senator Lindsey Graham.

“I rejected it (offer. - RT), yes. I am not interested. I want to solve everything completely, but not put it off until later, ”Trump quotes the edition.

On the eve of Graham publicly stated that Trump should run the government for three weeks. According to the senator, during this period it will be possible to check whether it will be possible to come to an agreement. If this does not happen, the president can try to realize his initiative by imposing a state of emergency.

In turn, Trump stressed that he was not going to resort to such measures.

“I’m not going to declare a state of emergency, it’s too easy. Now I have every right to declare it, but I'm not going to just because it is too simple, ”CNN quotes Trump.

Earlier, on January 4, the president acknowledged that "you can declare a state of emergency and do everything quickly." "But I prefer the process with the achievement of agreements," - cites the words of Trump CNBC. It clarifies the Associated Press, at the same time the head of the White House threatened the congressmen with "a shatdaun for a long time, months or even years."

Recall that the current shutdown - a temporary suspension of work of a number of federal agencies due to the lack of a budget agreed by Congress - began on December 22, 2018.

By January 12, the current shutdown broke the previous record, becoming the longest in the history of the United States. Before the longest suspension of the government’s work was the shutdown in late 1995 - early 1996 during the work of the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton.

The state of emergency will allow Trump to take advantage of the money that the Pentagon has left instead of using money directly from the federal budget, says political scientist Sergei Zadakov, a political scientist and corresponding member of the Academy of Military Sciences.

“When he says that he will not use this right, he will first of all provoke the Democrats. Those who said that the president would introduce a state of emergency in order to illegally spend money, and he could be pressed for it. This would mean that it has become illegal to change budget lines, and only the Congress can do this, ”Sudakov says.

The expert noted that “in the event of such actions, Trump does not fall under federal laws, but under local, state laws, with the help of which judicial investigations can be initiated against him”.

In order to avoid such proceedings, Trump says that state of emergency is an extreme measure, the political scientist is sure.

“According to him, if he enters the state of emergency, then the blame for this will lie entirely on the congress. He wants to convey this to the voters, shows that he will not make concessions, ”the expert concluded.

"The Democrats also had to meet"

The crisis of the US federal government began with disagreements between Trump and the Democrats, who have a majority in the House of Representatives since January 2019. Parliamentarians refuse to add to the budget $ 5.7 billion to build a wall on the border of the United States and Mexico. Trump, in turn, does not agree to sign any version of the budget in the absence of an item on the financing of the wall.

Shatdaun suffered a quarter of US federal institutions, among which were the State Department, the Ministry of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, trade, transport, finance and internal affairs (in the United States, the ministry with this name deals with natural resources).

The suspension of the work of federal institutions affected 800 thousand employees of various departments. As reported by USA Today, 380 thousand of them will go on compulsory leave, another 420 thousand will continue to work for free. The House of Representatives subsequently passed a bill on the need to pay compensation to civil servants affected by the shatdaun.

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The continuation of the shatdaun can lead to noticeable economic consequences that will be noticeable against the background of the subject of the dispute, says political analyst Mikhail Sinelnikov-Orishak.

“Just a couple of weeks of this shatdaun, and the economic consequences will exceed the amount that Trump requested to build the wall. By itself, the situation is similar to the story of two sheep. Although the president has already softened the rhetoric and would have reached the modernization of the border lines. Democrats also had to meet, ”said the expert in an interview with RT.

However, later Trump was told “no” and the question of the prestige of the president was raised, the political analyst notes. According to him, "Democrats believe that the shatdaun first of all weakens the current president."

“But it’s not possible to put all the blame on Trump. He did not agree to a temporary restoration of the work of the government, because he considered that this would cause him an irreparable blow, the Democrats would understand that he could continue to live on, ”the expert concluded.