Authorities and other federal agencies will have to stay within previously specified limits, which means – with one exception – no level increase. The exception is that the Secret Service, which provides, among other things, bodyguard protection to the President and presidential candidates, will receive approximately 2.3 billion more, translated to kronor.
“Although this is a solution that none of us would prefer, it is the most reasonable solution now, considering the situation," Mike Johnson writes in a comment.
He adds that it would be political mismanagement to shut down the state apparatus in October, just a month before the presidential election. Voters do not want that, and experience speaks against it.
Budget crises like the one that now seems to have been averted have been common in recent years due to increasingly hardening opposition between Republicans and Democrats. This is not least because former President Donald Trump has constantly made demands from the sidelines and, with the support of his most militant supporters in Congress, has demanded additions that often have had nothing to do with the budget itself.
Recently, a proposal for a settlement was stopped because Trump demanded an addition that would have made it more difficult for some voters to vote in the presidential election on November 5.
