By Jaime Ortega.
Democrats and Republicans finalize a tentative agreement that would avert the threat of default and reopen the federal government. The text is the result of war initiatives whose protagonists are Sen. Mitch McConnell and Democrat Harry Reid who now require the support of the Senate and House of Representatives, whose president John Boehner can decide when a vote.
Senate leaders have not officially announced the terms of the proposal. And they might be just talk efforts as for now. But the first details point to reopen the public until January 15 and raise the debt ceiling until early February. A calendar would open a window to negotiate the pending reforms of taxes and the state of welfare.
The difference in dates is a way of responding to the demands of the two major parties . The first allows the Democrats to delay the entry into force of the automatic cuts that come into action at the beginning of next year. The second allows the Republicans to keep the threat of bankruptcy if democrats default during the negotiations.
The agreement provides for a commission to be represented to senators and members of the House of Representatives and whose aim will be to reach an agreement to the public expenditure during the year. The commission should announce the resolution by mid- December. But for now it is unclear what will happen if the negotiation stalls.
The fine print of the agreement being negotiated by Senate leaders includes two clauses related to the health reform driven by Barack Obama. But none meets the demands of the Republicans, whose members aspired to repeal the rule or at least delay its entry into force.
At the request of Republicans , the White House will verify income levels who receive subsidies for compulsory health insurance contracts that provide for the reform to act. At the request of the Democrats, delayed until 2015 the entry into force of a tax that would require paying those who already have a policy of $63 per person. Moreover, the president’s health reform will remain intact despite being in the spotlight of the most conservative Republicans and be the trigger for the crisis that has caused the federal government shutdown .
