In the United States, the new budget bill has not yet been passed due to conflict between the ruling party and the opposition party, and the current partial government shutdown has become the longest in history. However, on the 9th, the Senate passed a procedural motion related to the new budget bill, marking a step forward toward lifting the shutdown.

In the United States, the government has been partially shut down since the 1st of last month due to clashes between the ruling party and the opposition, surpassing the previous 35-day shutdown from December 2018 and becoming the longest recorded shutdown.

Meanwhile, on the 9th, the Senate voted on a necessary procedural motion to advance a temporary spending bill that would ensure short-term funding for the federal government, and the motion passed with a three-fifths majority.

At the Senate, there was a conflict between the opposition Democratic Party, which demanded that the budget bill include an extension of health insurance subsidies, and the ruling Republican Party, which argued that the bill was attempting to provide health insurance to illegal immigrants. Nevertheless, the passage of this motion marks a step toward ending the government shutdown.

The Wall Street Journal, a leading newspaper, reported that some Democratic lawmakers voted in favor of the motion because they secured provisions that would reverse the dismissal of government employees carried out by the Trump administration since the shutdown began.

The new budget bill is expected to be passed by the Senate, after which attention will shift to whether the bill will pass the House of Representatives and how the Democrats’ demand to extend health insurance subsidies will be handled.