The Democrats in Senate will start on the draft of their spending cut plan that will decrease billions of dollars from the federal budget for a period of seven months. This is the compromise they came up with the Republicans to decrease the government size this year.

Senate-Democrats The Democrats plan to incorporate President Barack Obama’s proposed budget for the next year, which included at least $33 billion in program reductions and terminations. The Democrats are also looking at the various cuts the Republican-controlled House has proposed.

There’s no official word yet as to how much the Senate Democrats plan to cut. The Republican House and the Democratic Senate must find a middle point or else the temporary measure that’s funding the federal government will expire in March 4. This will result into a government shutdown.

The Republicans approve the Democrats’ decision to abandon their stand on spending cuts but there’s still a lot of work to do to reach a compromise. Last week the Republicans in the House voted to cut $61 billion from federal budget for the period between starting from March to September. The Democrats and White House deemed the proposed cuts to be harmful to the economy.