El Senado de EE.UU. aprueba proyecto de ley del techo de deuda

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Con 63 votos a favor y 36 en contra el Senado de EE.UU. ha aprobado la noche de este jueves un anteproyecto de ley para suspender el techo de deuda y evitar un impago.

Ahora la iniciativa, que la jornada anterior fue avalada por la Cámara de Representantes y propone suspender el límite de endeudamiento hasta el 1 de enero de 2025, pasará al presidente Joe Biden para ser firmada. Tras formalizarse este último trámite, el Gobierno estadounidense podrá seguir cumpliendo con sus obligaciones.

Tras concluir la votación, el mandatario emitió un comunicado en el que celebró el avance del anteproyecto. “Nadie consigue todo lo que quiere en una negociación, pero no nos equivoquemos: este acuerdo bipartidista es una gran victoria para nuestra economía y para el pueblo estadounidense”, subrayó. Asimismo, señaló que espera poder suscribir el documento “tan pronto como sea posible” y que se dirigirá a la nación el viernes.

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A diferencia de la elevación del techo de deuda en una cantidad específica, su suspensión permite al Congreso definir un período de tiempo antes del cual el nivel máximo de endeudamiento debe abordarse de nuevo. Este enfoque garantiza que el elevamiento del techo de la deuda no será utilizado para obtener beneficios políticos y que la próxima batalla sobre la cuestión se desatará ya después de las elecciones presidenciales de 2024.

Antes de la votación en ambas cámaras del Congreso, Biden y el presidente de la Cámara de Representantes, el republicano Kevin McCarthy, alcanzaron un acuerdo bipartidista definitivo que incluyó concesiones por ambas partes.

El acuerdo estipula que el gasto no destinado a defensa permanecerá en 2024 a niveles prácticamente iguales a los actuales y se aumentará un 1 % en el ejercicio fiscal de 2025.

Asimismo, la legislación mantendría la financiación de programas de asistencia sanitaria para veteranos, al tiempo que rescindirá unos 28.000 millones de dólares en fondos no comprometidos que fueron aprobados por el Congreso en medio de la pandemia del covid-19. 

Por otra parte, el pacto prevé recortes en los planes de financiamiento aprobados anteriormente para el Servicio de Impuestos Internos, algo que exigían desde la bancada republicana. Entre otras concesiones de Biden, destaca la negativa a cancelar las exenciones tributarias introducidas durante el mandato de Donald Trump para las corporaciones y los ricos.

En paralelo, las disposiciones del acuerdo bipartidista sugieren que aquellos estadounidenses que pidieron préstamos para pagar sus estudios tendrán que empezar a devolverlos a finales de verano.

Además, pese a la propuesta republicana de cancelar las subvenciones a las energías renovables, la iniciativa aprobada por el Congreso no introducirá cambios en las provisiones de la Ley de Reducción de la Inflación en materia de clima y energía limpia.

Después de que, a finales de enero, se alcanzara el límite de deuda de 31,4 billones de dólares, el Departamento del Tesoro empezó a tomar “medidas extraordinarias” para seguir pagando las facturas del Gobierno federal.

El Gobierno federal estadounidense está sujeto a una normativa legal que regula el nivel de endeudamiento que puede asumir. Una vez que se llegue al límite y agote las formas de pagar sus cuentas, el Congreso debe levantar el techo para que el Ejecutivo continúe pidiendo prestado para cumplir con sus obligaciones.

 


PrisioneroEnArgentina.com

Junio 2, 2023


 

38 thoughts on “El Senado de EE.UU. aprueba proyecto de ley del techo de deuda”

    • who's that girl?
    • posted on June 2, 2023

    Again… It took 90 days fr Biden to accept a meeting to resolve this…

    • tomorrow
    • posted on June 2, 2023

    about time

    • Elsie Wright
    • posted on June 2, 2023

    I wonder what Bden gave up

  1. Oh man… 3 months for this????

  2. It seems to me (that) they don’t care about people. They just care about their political ambitions.

    • Trust no one
    • posted on June 2, 2023

    They hype us up with hope by voting yes and body slamming that hope in the senate by voting no.

    • Jimbo
    • posted on June 2, 2023

    Game, set, and match to. BIDEN

    • អ្នកការពារសន្តិភាពដោយដាវ
    • posted on June 2, 2023

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    • J.R. Louis
    • posted on June 2, 2023

    How can they give this administration 4 trillion to spend there needs a freeze in spending

  3. These guys are playing with our lives. Disgusting.

    • Bo A.
    • posted on June 2, 2023

    They should rescind Congress/Senate payroll. Turn in ALL dark money. There…no more debt. We can start fresh at ZERO!!! Fixed it for you.
    How dare you punish the most vulnerable? So much is telling of your character by how you treat the least of us. Christian’s??? Hardly!

    • Lolita
    • posted on June 2, 2023

    Has anyone noticed that the debt ceiling bill SUSPENDS the debt limit for 2 years? If this thing passes the senate, we are giving the government that got us $31 trillion in the hole a blank check. This happens at a time when we have a presidential election coming up, we are sending hundreds of billions overseas to fight a proxy war, we have an uncontrolled flood of illegal immigrants that will have to be taken care of so politicians don’t look cruel and heartless toward the poor masses, we have massive infrastructure problems, we live in a time where people vote for the person who promises the most goodies “for free,” and the government seems to be determined to shut down all fossil fuel power plants without a viable alternative to replace their production. What could possibly go wrong?

    • Leslie Burmann
    • posted on June 2, 2023

    I was really expecting to see a “collapse”.

    • G.A.
    • posted on June 2, 2023

    A bill that may curb inflation, may reduce debt….super for families, we all need a break from Bidenflation
    97 days Biden would not even attend a meeting or negotiate.

    • Saturday Morning
    • posted on June 2, 2023

    The passage of this bill was never in question.

    • CLAUDIO KUSSMAN
    • posted on June 2, 2023

    Si no equilibran los gastos ingresos-egresos y viven gastando de más, terminarán como nosotros en Argentina. Además la ayuda, muchas veces monumental, a terceros países no hará que estos actúen en forma recíproca y agradezcan a EEUU. Argentina consiguió todos los dólares que pudo del Fondo Monetario Internacional, ahora se volcó a China y así ya tenemos una “misteriosa” base militar en el sur y varias entregas más en marcha. CLAUDIO KUSSMAN.

    • Laurel Kimmel
    • posted on June 2, 2023

    These politicians ought to be made to live in poor neighborhoods and try to survive on food stamps which don’t cover the high food prices and also pay rent on substandard housing

    • crowned Roman Catholic
    • posted on June 2, 2023

    Hopefully, this will put us on a path for more fiscal restraint

    • Crispin MacAuley
    • posted on June 2, 2023

    Patting themselves on the back for doing their job and fleecing american citizens.

    • Pearl Gamache
    • posted on June 2, 2023

    Tax the Rich
    Term limits
    End corporate greed ,and price gouging
    End gerrymandering

      • Cool Hand Picard
      • posted on June 2, 2023

      And the richs will fly the country.

    • Joe Johnson
    • posted on June 2, 2023

    How’s that? With the extremely tiny amount of money they took from the IRS? Don’t worry .. the Dems will still hire 78k new IRS agents to ruin middle class Americans and your children will be slaves to China since our debt will climb FIVE TRILLION dollars if not more by 2025, bringing it to a staggering 37 – 40 trillion debt. You obviously have no idea how money and financial responsibility works.
    yeop.

      • Carol K.
      • posted on June 2, 2023

      brandon aka biden’s approval rating will continue to crash.

      • Call me Rob
      • posted on June 2, 2023

      You know things are bad when the republicans are claiming victory for simply doing what Congress has always done.

        • Stop or my mom will shot
        • posted on June 2, 2023

        No wonder the country been saved by the Republicans.

          • dr. lecter 2018
          • posted on June 2, 2023

          Oh yeah…

    • Max
    • posted on June 2, 2023

    They No mention of who pays for this , the poor. No mention of Biden folding like a lawn chair again. Actual praise for Kevin who has just put an economic gun to the country’s head hurting the poor further , while making it easier for billionaires to cheat on their taxes.

    • Jana Most Deaf
    • posted on June 2, 2023

    How is this a victory if you’re desperately cutting programs that keep American people from drowning? I don’t understand how these government officials can sleep well at night, knowing that they are getting a steady paycheck and they’re able to get raises versus everybody else struggling to keep up prices of rent food.

    • Dan - O
    • posted on June 2, 2023

    So sad wages so low working poor are eligible for food stamps no less GOP glee about it VOTE BLUE or continue

    • Charles A. Webber
    • posted on June 2, 2023

    This is a bill that will eventually destroy the low income . But again if a default would occur it be worse so it’s a dam if you do darn if you don’t . But stop sending money to places that frankly needs to help themselves some . Sending constantly money to Ukraine has got to be cut back . United States now is suffering and seems our government just doesn’t give a rip . Not saying helping other countries is a bad thing by no means but help your own country first . That what you all were voted in office to do .

      • Sanskript9
      • posted on June 2, 2023

      Sending money to Ukraine for weaponry aid is justified, but that’s not where a chunk of our money went to. The majority of taxpayer money goes to rich people getting tax cuts, which largely is why these recessions happen in the first place.

        • Em
        • posted on June 2, 2023

        That was a secret and you tell the true you can’t keep a secret i love it.

    • Quick Draw
    • posted on June 2, 2023

    Our Government/Congress is the most Corrupt organization in the World !!! So the bill passed that is good but at what cost to Americans ???????

      • The DReam is over
      • posted on June 2, 2023

      Agreed

    • Timmy Prillman
    • posted on June 2, 2023

    People tend to forget that trump did the same thing 3 times and not one complaint from the republicans
    Pretty hypocritical don’t you think?

    • Kay
    • posted on June 2, 2023

    Now we have a House of Rep that might work with the FED and may actually reduce inflation which would help ALL families…not just a few.

    • Life sucks
    • posted on June 2, 2023

    Why does it always have to be to the detriment of those vulnerable who were already suffering on a regular basis? The dealbreaker for me was the student loan payments resuming. I’m already forced to pay back taxes from my tax returns just because I make too much money working just because I don’t have any dependents, now they’re trying to get me to pay back student loan debt that should of been rid of anyway because Colleges force people to take out loans because they jack up prices for years making College unaffordable. This is grossly unfair and sour grapes, but the bigoted, out-of-touch Boomers out there will make hasty judgments and try to make tone-deaf arguments telling you to adjust to it because they’ve had it easier than future generations like we have now.

      • Rita A.
      • posted on June 2, 2023

      The republican need the money for the millionaires and billionaires poor people don’t need money.

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