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The U.S. senate rejected both parties' bills to avoid a government shutdown at the end of September, while the Trump administration proposes to sell almost $6 billion in weapons to Israel. Jorge Gestoso with the details. teleSUR

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00:00The U.S. Senate rejected both parties' bills to avoid a government shutdown at the end

00:04of September, while the Trump administration proposes to sell almost $6 billion in weapons

00:09to Israel.

00:11Our correspondent, Jorge Estoso, with the details.

00:15There is concern here in Washington given the fact that could be in 10 days a government

00:21shutdown, and that is the result of disagreements in the Senate that they couldn't pass the

00:27proposal of the Republicans.

00:31Chuck Schumer, the leader of the minority of the Democrat Party, says that the proposal

00:37of the Republicans are not good enough.

00:40There was a transitional proposal that they did that was financing the government until

00:45the end of the year, and now that could represent that after October the 1st could be the shutdown

00:54of non-essential government officials and agencies.

01:01Could affect the payment of the government's members.

01:06And also there's a lot of financial areas that could be affected by the shutdown.

01:11So that shows clearly the polarization even in the Congress that is taking place this week.

01:18And also there is sort of a new proposal that could have been set by President Trump, but

01:27is not confirmed.

01:29He could have suggested that the U.S. was ready to sell up to $6.4 billion in guns to Israel,

01:39especially Apache helicopters and assault cars.

01:45And that is very weird, if you want, because yesterday in the morning, President Trump had

01:53a telephone conversation of about two hours with the President Xi Jinping, where they address

02:00areas of conflict around the world, including the area of Israel.

02:05And both of them were mentioning that they were seeking to work together in order to achieve

02:11the peace.

02:12So for one saying, we are talking about his, together with the other leader of the most

02:20populous country, China and the second economy, pushing for peace.

02:25And on the other hand, he could have said, and again, it's not confirmed yet, that the U.S.

02:30States could be ready to sell $6.4 billion in guns to Israel, a country that has been accused

02:40more and more, for more and more countries, including the United Nations, that are committing

02:45a genocide against the people of Palestine.

02:50We get back to you now.

U.S. | Senate rejects bills to prevent Govt. shutdown late September

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