NEWSLINE PAPER,- The US government managed to avoid a shutdown one week ago when President Joe Biden approved a $1.2 trillion budget plan.The Herbert Hoover Museum and Library is one of the government institutions whose operations can greatly benefit from this kind of event. The potential closure has an impact on the West Branch town business network as well, which frequently depends on foot traffic to the museum. According to Jessi Simon, executive director of Main Street Organisation West Branch, their organisation works with the workers of the park around-the-clock as well as the Presidential Library and Museum. Cooperation between established organisations and non-profits would be unfeasible without money.
Mostly, the history of the city will be covered in the Simon exhibition. Visitors from all around the world are predicted to number between 100,000 and 150,000. Encouragement of these individuals to spend some time and explore the Main Street District was one of her objectives in order to boost the local economy. The closure will increase online sales through current internet platforms even though it will undoubtedly mean fewer pedestrians at local stores.
This congressional session has had four near misses of the aqueous property of the government shutdown.This has forced Main Street and the Museum to reassess how they operate.According to [Simon] this has become the "new normal" and choices are being taken with the next shutdown announcement in mind.
Strangely enough, from the perspective of the museum, Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa is suffering from the illness. He did, however, offer as a potential remedy a bill proposed by Oklahoma Senator James Lankford. Billed as the "Prevent Government Shutdowns Act of 2023," it would allow government agencies to continue operating while the government is still in "sessions and negotiating the budget."
The senator emphasised that the law will prevent a government shutdown and let the government to function according to its previous fiscal year's budget until fresh appropriations are authorised. There is a chance that another shutdown on September 30th will happen because the Senate and House have not yet passed the bill.