The United States is a few hours away from a paralysis of the federal government due to the lack of an agreement on the Budget for which Democratic President Joe Biden and the Republican opposition blame each other. Barring a last-minute agreement, which seems highly unlikely, the world's largest economy will operate in slow motion from Sunday: 1.5 million civil servants will be without pay, air traffic will be disrupted and many public services will not be attended to. Neither the Senate, controlled by Democrats, nor the House of Representatives, led by Republicans, have yet managed to approve a bill to extend the federal budget that expires at 1 a.m. Sunday Argentine time. This budget crisis has direct repercussions on the war in Ukraine: the White House initially requested that the budget approved by representatives include $24 billion in military and humanitarian aid for kyiv. Aware of the political problems of his great American ally, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky went to Congress last week to try to convince Washington to help him cross "the finish line" against Russia. But a handful of Republican supporters of former President Donald Trump refuse to unlock any new aid to kyiv because they consider that these funds should be allocated to the United States immigration crisis, the AFP news agency reported. That group of conservative legislators on Friday blocked a short-term financing bill presented by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, of his same party, which sought to avoid the paralysis of the US Government.