The Senate, the upper house of Congress - the US parliament, on Friday, just hours before the deadline, adopted a temporary budget that helps avoid paralysis of the federal administration, AFP reported.
The text, which funds the US federal government until September, has been supported by President Donald Trump, who must now publish it.
But this was sharply criticized by opposition Democrats who condemned the planned significant cuts in certain public expenditures, in the context of an already strong reduction in the number of civil servants.
The AP agency previously stated that minority Democrats are "faced with a dilemma" because they have only painful, impossible options: to vote to approve the budget and thereby give Republican US President Donald Trump, as they believe, broad discretionary powers regarding the spending of budget money, or to not vote for the budget and thus allow Trump to do whatever he wants under the pretext that there is no budget money.
Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, facing a rebellion within his own ranks, insisted at the opening of the Senate session that a vote for the Republican budget bill was a better option than a government shutdown, which he said would give Trump and his billionaire ally Elon Musk free rein to strangle the government itself.
According to him, Democrats are not backing down and are going to wage a long-term battle against Trump's plans.
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