One thing about a hundred things is that the government in America became shutdown. Meaning the government stopped. The public here cannot understand whether there is a government or computer? How did it stop? How does the government stop there? All government offices were closed. All government employees were sent on leave. Meaning, it is going on for the central government there, the governments of the states are going on. But what is happening? And how it happens is a matter of understanding.
The government makes a budget and Parliament has to vote on it. Meaning that Parliament passes the budget, then money is distributed.
Budget is not passed
The year of the government there begins on 1 October. That is, last year ends on 30 September. So by September 30, the budget has to be passed by Parliament. And if Parliament does not pass? Meaning if the MPs there are not ready to agree with the government’s budget? So what happens? The government is closed. shut down. Meaning, the work cannot be ahead until the MPs agree, because how will the government run? The money to run this year’s government was not approved. It seems strange to hear but this is the system there.
Essential departments working in shutdown
So just very important work keeps going on, such as the money to give to the soldiers goes to the money or the money goes to the air traffic to run the airport, but the rest of the government is closed. This has happened there from 1980 to 14 times. It is for a few days, but until the Parliament passes the budget, the government comes to a standstill and it has happened from 1980 to 14 times. In the year 2018, when Trump was the President last time, the government came to a standstill for 35 days. The shutdown was done.
Why does the budget not pass the budget
So now the question is why Parliament does not pass the budget? So many times what happens there is the majority of another party in Parliament and the government belongs to another party. Yes. The public does not understand this quickly here.
President and Parliament election isolated
But the thing to understand is that we have an election of MPs here and the party which has a majority is formed and she chooses her Prime Minister. It is not so there. The election of Parliament is different. And the President’s election is different. So many times the majority in Parliament belongs to one party and the President belongs to another party. So as we have two houses of Parliament, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, there are two houses of Parliament, House of Repharge and Senate. House of represents are called houses in shorts.
House and Senate structure
There are 435 members in the house. Those who come from all over the country. Just like 543 are selected in the Lok Sabha here, 435 are selected there. But our Rajya Sabha and their Senate are different. There are 50 states all over America. So the number of seats of each state in their house is different according to the population. But all the states in the Senate there are equal. Be small, be a large population with less population, there are two members in the Senate of each state. That is, two each of 50 states.
So there are 100 members total in the Senate.
Parties status
The parties as most people know, there are two main parties. Republican Party and Democratic Party. The Trump belongs to the Republican Party. Obama and Biden were from the Democratic party. So many times it happens that the house has a majority of one party and the second party has a majority in the Senate. Even then the matter gets stuck many times.
This time shutdown
So what has happened this time? Which party belongs to the President? Of Republican Party. Which party has a majority in the house? Of Republican Party. Which party has a majority in the Senate? Of Republican Party. Then? When the President also has a majority of the Republican Party, and in both houses of Parliament, then how did the budget not pass? How did the government shutdown?
Majority screw in House and Senate
So what is it that though in the house and also in the Senate, Trump’s Republican Party has a majority, but there are a screw in the majority figure. As we talked, there are 435 seats in the house. So the majority of the Republican party there is very little. 220 belongs to the Republican Party and 215 are from the opposition Democratic Party. So there the budget of the Trump government passed there. But got stuck in the Senate.
60 votes rule in sannet
Why that? Because the majority in the Senate, the Republican Party has 53 seats out of 100. Meaning 47 are from the opposition and 53 are from the Republican Party. So what? Because there is another rule in the Senate there. That is, whatever important bills are in the Senate, like these budget bills, they do not pass by a majority of 51 in 100. There are 60 votes required to pass the bill. And the Republican party has 53 seats. That is, they need 7 more votes of opposition MPs. Only then can the budget pass.
This time vote mathematics
So what happened this time that the proposal of the Republican Party could get 55 votes. That is, 45 votes were against him.
So the proposal did not pass and the government was closed. What is the opposition party asking for?
Demand demand for democratic party
So there was a tax exemption to Obama’s time middle class families on taking health insurance. It is going to end this year, and the Democratic party wants to continue tax exemption in health insurance. And there is another program to pay treatment for the lower section families. The government should also continue that too. Trump wants to close these schemes. So the opposition stopped the budget itself. And the government has become shutdown.
It is necessary to compromise
Now both sides will have to compromise, then the shutdown will be opened. Trump is Trump. He is engaged in making the opposition party a villain. That this is blackmail. They are threatening that if they do not panic with this shutdown and the jobs of government employees will go away and if they leave, then the Democratic party will be responsible for it.
Opposition stance
At the same time, the opposition party is saying that Trump should excuse people to expel people. In the name of reducing expenses, they will not let them be burdened by cutting government expenses on middle class health services. So in a way this is Nurakushti. Both sides will have to settle.
Election and strategy
But next year elections are held. And both parties are collecting their vote-banks. Now you will say the election next year? Just in 2024, there were elections in which Trump won. So remember what we had just talked about. The presidential elections are different there and the Parliament elections are different. Presidential elections are held every four years. And after two years, the election of Parliament is held. That is, now the elections of Parliament will be held in 2026.
Election and shutdown game
And it can definitely be that the President belongs to a party and the majority in Parliament becomes of the opposition party. Then Parliament can put an obstacle on every decision of the President which will come to pass in Parliament. Right now the President also belongs to the Republican Party and the majority in Parliament also belongs to the Republican Party. But the opposition Democratic Party is beating its rhythm for the elections of Parliament.
Shutdown’s political maths
He believes that Trump, who is running this tariff and changing these visa rules and reducing the expenses of the government, removing people from government jobs and waking up every morning and teasing a new raga every morning, this will lead to the public against them and their party will be weak in the election of Parliament. Therefore, the Democratic party has given the budget stuck in the name of health insurance. Trump is also adamant, his calculation is that people will curse the Democratic party for the problems that people will suffer from being shutdown and this will harm the Democratic party in Parliament elections next year. Both sides were adamant according to their own mathematics. And shutdown. So the government in America stops like this. to cut a long story short.