Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama menandatangani 1.1 trilion dolar omnibus bil perbelanjaan di Bangunan Pejabat Eksekutif Baru, di seberang jalan dari White House , di Washington pada 17 Januari 2014. (AFP Photo/Jim Watson – think IN pictures @1WORLD Community)
Ct1Mahani | SitiWanMahani - Presiden Barack Obama telah menandatangani pakej $ 1.1 trilion per-belanjaan yang akan membiayai kerajaan persekutuan Amerika Syarikat sehingga September. Berbeza dengan semasa penutupan Oktober, bil yang diterima sokon-gan kedua-dua parti tidak pernah berlaku dalam kedua-dua Kongres House.
Yang 1,582 halaman panjang digubal rang undang-undang belanjawan persekutuan ger-gasi telah menamatkan ancaman lain shutdown kerajaan sama dengan 16-hari panjang yang berlaku pada bulan Oktober, apabila lebih 800,000 kakitangan kerajaan telah furloughed manakala 1.3 juta terpaksa bekerja tanpa mengetahui bila kah mereka akan dibayar.
Dewan Rakyat mengundi overwhelmingly memihak kepada rang undang-undang yang besar Rabu, meluluskan bajet dengan majoriti yang kuat daripada 359 kepada 67. Senat mengambil menerajui Khamis, menyokong rang undang-undang oleh 72 hingga 26. Obama menandatangani rang undang-undang menjadi undang-undang Jumaat.
“Kebaikan pertolongan - iaitu sekeping besar perniagaan. Itu adalah rang undang-undang yang besar,” kata Obama selepas melihat kotak biru besar-besaran yang mengandungi dokumen itu.
“Di seluruh lembaga, kerajaan kita akan beroperasi tanpa, mudah-mudahan, terlalu banyak gangguan berbanding tahun akan datang,” kata Obama pada majlis itu, mengu-capkan terima kasih kepada semua orang yang membuat ia mungkin untuk lulus rang undang-undang melalui dalam masa yang singkat.
Laluan Bajet baru dibangunkan sebagai hasil daripada pelbagai kompromi antara Republikan dan Demokrat, dengan setiap pihak mendapat sesuatu sebagai balasan untuk memberikan sesuatu sehingga .
Rang undang-undang memastikan pembiayaan setiap agensi persekutuan dan skala kembali mengasingkan yang serius terjejas Pentagon dan beberapa program utama domestik tahun lepas. Walaupun bajet baru membawa perbelanjaan kurang daripada Presiden Obama telah mencadangkan, namun ia berjumlah pembiayaan lebih besar daripada Republikan telah berkeras.
Keuntungan utama Parti Demokrat ‘merupakan pembiayaan beberapa tandatangan program kesihatan Obamacare presiden, ditolak melalui bersama-sama dengan pening-katan perbelanjaan Program Mula Ketua menyokong kanak-kanak dari keluarga berpendapatan rendah dan beberapa program kesihatan mental.
Republikan berkeras pemotongan bajet lagi untuk Amerika Syarikat Perkhidmatan Hasil Dalam Negeri, agensi kerajaan yang menyatukan kutipan cukai dan perkhidmatan penguatkuasaan undang-undang cukai, dan Agensi Perlindungan Alam Sekitar.
Pemotongan bajet akan terus bagi Jabatan Pendidikan, Jabatan Perumahan dan Pemban-gunan Bandar, Jabatan Buruh, dan juga Pentadbiran Keselamatan Pengangkutan, namun.
Sementara itu, pembiayaan akan ditambah bagi Pentadbiran Keselamatan Sosial, Pusat Kawalan Penyakit dan Institut Kesihatan Kebangsaan. Selain itu, pembiayaan akan ditambah atau pemotongan akan diterbalikkan untuk FBI, Tentera Kor Jurutera dan semua program keselamatan siber. Pentagon akan mengelakkan dipotong kira-kira $ 20 bilion.
Bajet baru supposes membeku untuk banyak gaji tertinggi kerajaan, termasuk naib presiden. Rang undang-undang membawa berita baik untuk veteran kurang upaya dan keluarga veteran tertentu itu , yang akan terselamat dari potongan pencen - nasib yang menunggu pesara tentera muda.
Safe from Shutdown: OBAMA Signs trillion-dollar budget
President Barack Obama has signed a $1.1 trillion spending package that will fund the US federal government until September. In contrast to during October’s shutdown, the bill received unprecedented bipartisan support in both houses of Congress.
The giant 1,582 page-long enacted federal budget bill has put an end to the threat of another government shutdown similar to the 16-day-long one that took place in October, when over 800,000 employees of state were furloughed while other 1.3 million had to work without knowing when they would be paid.
The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly in favor of the massive bill Wednesday, approving the budget with a strong majority of 359 to 67. The Senate took up the lead Thursday, supporting the bill by 72 to 26. Obama signed the bill into law Friday.
“Goodness gracious – that is a big piece of business. That is a big bill,” Obama said after looking at a massive blue box containing the document.
“Across the board, our government is going to be operating without, hopefully, too many glitches over the next year,” Obama said at the signing ceremony, thanking everyone who made it possible to pass the bill through in such a short time.
The new budget’s passage was engineered as a result of multiple compromises between the Republicans and the Democrats, with each party gaining something in return for giving something up.
The bill ensures funding of every federal agency and scales back the sequester that seriously affected the Pentagon and some major domestic programs last year. Though the new budget brings less spending than President Obama had proposed, it nevertheless amounted to larger funding than the Republicans were insisting on.
The Democrats’ major gain was the continuation of funding for the president’s signature Obamacare health program, pushed through together with increasing spending on the Head Start Program supporting children from low-income families and some mental health programs.
Republicans insisted on further budget cuts for the US Internal Revenue Service, the government agency uniting tax collection and tax law enforcement services, and the Environmental Protection Agency.
Budget cuts will continue for the Department of Education, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Department of Labor, as well as the Transportation Security Administration, however.
Meanwhile, funding will be increased for the Social Security Administration, Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health. Also, the funding will be increased or the cuts will be reversed for the FBI, the Army Corps of Engineers and all cyber security programs. The Pentagon will avoid a roughly $20 billion cut.
The new budget supposes freezes for many top government salaries, including that of the vice president. The bill brings good news for disabled veterans and certain veteran's families, who will be saved from pension cuts – the fate awaiting younger military retirees.
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