Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Sunday said passing additional hurricane aid for states impacted by Hurricanes Helene and Milton “can wait” until Congress is back in session after the election.
CBS “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan asked him why he thinks it’s fine to wait until November for Congress to pass more aid for Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton victims.
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Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) was part of a bipartisan group of senators to sign a letter urging Senate leaders to think about bringing lawmakers back into session this month to enact disaster legislation before the end of the year.
House lawmakers have also urged Johnson to bring the chamber back into session. A group of Democrats sent a letter last week asking him to do so, and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) posted on the social media platform X, “If Congress goes into a special session we can get it passed immediately. This needs to happen. @SpeakerJohnson call us back.”
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I’m very excited for republicans to then pretend this never happened and blame Biden for not aiding hurricane victims :')
If the Democrats lose to an opponent this vapid and unpopular…
As Jesus always said “Let onto thy son knowledge of all your kinks and ignore those who suffer God’s divine action.” Assholeians 3:16.
Vacation is much more important than your supporters.
Na… that’s a convenient coincidence. Funding an effective FEMA would make the Biden administration look good. This is the same bullshit that they pulled when they killed the border deal.
It doesn’t matter. The ‘shift blame’ spell the right have cast on their base means they have impunity because the consequences will be automatically attributed to some other scapegoat.
Monday morning:
Article II, Section 3 them, Biden. Prove to the county who really want to help the county and who wants to help themselves.
Yeah, obvs that $20 billion wasn’t enough because climate change. So more is still needed.
This is a great idea!
Not sure what your point is, also given Katrina cost some 100 billion in 2005 dollars
Johnson is wrong to delay funding this because the next hurricane or other upcoming climate change related disaster will exhaust the current funds, so Biden absolutely should use his powers under Article II, Section 3 of the US Constitution to convene another session of Congress specifically to get that funding in.
I really don’t know how to make it any clearer. Also, don’t get why you downvoted me…
I misinterpreted you, my bad
the republicants wouldn’t pass anything, other than some nonsense whining about why they were called back to session.
It would still be worth it, just to get it on the record. It would also make a great campaign ad.
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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4922955-disaster-aid-political-football/
https://www.abc4.com/news/hill-politics/johnson-additional-hurricane-aid-can-wait-until-congress-is-back-in-session/amp/
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4921918-kaptur-johnson-disaster-relief-aid-hurricane-milton/They are doing this because they know they will be able manipulate their base into saying this was Bidens fault.
Exactly, the government is currently only temporarily funded until Dec 20. This is a nice juicy chunk of funding they can use to claim all sorts of bullshit.
If it were to get more money for war everyone would be in full session
They’d rather do nothing because they want to maximize the pain for the people and make their lies resonate more with voters.
The Republican party continues to eat its own tail, and as usual the citizens are the only ones to suffer any consequences.
And half of those same citizens will vote for them next month!
Oh man I hope his constituents absolutely fuck him at the polls.
But they probably won’t because this is Louisiana we’re talking about.
That’s not very Christian of him.
No, but it’s very supply-side Jesus of him
Maybe his jerkoff buddy is in Florida without access to the Catholic spy cam bullshit on his phone? He’s gotta get the beatin’ while the beatin’s good?
I’m a Republican Voter in Florida and this REAFFIRMS my LOVE of Voting Republican! I’d rather LOSE MY HOME then to have my Tax Dollars help me instead of a Billionaire!
Gotta pull yourself up from by the bootstraps!
I wish we could get all the innocent people out of Florida and leave only people like you to get eaten by alligators :3
Nvm your post in c/conservative a while ago is making fun of them, you’ve really gotta start putting some /s’s in those shitposts friend
There was a silent /s at the end
Edit: I think you might understand that and are playing along. Apologies
Shid you’re right, I should’ve paid more attention in French class
All good lol, I was trying to help, not be rude
You weren’t rude friend you’re good :3 I didn’t think op was joking when I replied, admittedly I suck at spotting sarcasm online but op kinda just read like a trump tweet and I had to check their profile to confirm it was a joke lol
He had me in the first half, not gonna lie
Sad thing is that he can openly say this, because none of the trump voters will even see this. Their disinformation channels will just say that Democrats are blocking it.
If those people actually tracked any news they wouldn’t be as easy to manipulate.
I’d encourage Johnson to recess in the affected areas then.
I hope this dude drowns
