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Date: October 07, 2024 at 10:19:54
From: The Hierophant, [DNS_Address]
Subject: How can anyone be a Republican after things like this? |
URL: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mike-johnson-refuses-to-call-back-congress-to-vote-on-hurricane-aid/ar-AA1rPxMl?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=84a98981ca7f451ca93ba092262abe56&ei=14 |
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People are suffering and need hope and need to know
that their government, the people that are supposed to
represent them, are doing whatever they can to help.
"Mike Johnson Refuses to Call Back Congress to Vote on
Hurricane Aid
House Speaker Mike Johnson would not commit to bringing
Congress back to session to vote on additional aid for
victims of Hurricane Helene during an interview on Fox
News Sunday. Despite a written request from President
Biden and from a bipartisan group of Representatives
and Senators which included Rick Scott and Jared
Moskowitz, Johnson said there was no need to call a
special session before Congress officially returns
after the November election.
"That’s 30 days from now," Johnson said. "The thing
about these hurricanes and disasters of this magnitude
is it takes a while to calculate the actual damages,
and the states are going to need some time to do that."
Congress has historically interrupted recess to vote on
supplemental aid for disaster relief. Congress returned
in September of 2005 to approve an additional $51.8
billion in aid for Hurricane Katrina. Congress approved
$20 billion for FEMA's Disaster Relief Fund before
leaving D.C. at the end of September, despite the
agency's request for $33.1 billion for the fiscal year
starting in October. 82 Republicans in Congress voted
against that funding, while all Democrats voted in
favor.
"Without additional funding, FEMA would be required to
forego longer-term recovery activities in favor of
meeting urgent needs," Biden wrote in his request to
Congress. "The Congress should provide FEMA additional
resources to avoid forcing that kind of unnecessary
trade-off and to give the communities we serve the
certainty of knowing that help will be ongoing, both
for the short and long-term."
Biden has also requested additional funding for the
Small Business Administration to help business owners
affected by Helene.
"Congress will provide," Johnson said Sunday. "We will
help people in these disaster-prone areas. It’s an
appropriate role for the federal government, and you’ll
have bipartisan support for that, and it’ll all happen
in due time, and we’ll get that job done. There
shouldn’t be any concern about that."
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Date: October 07, 2024 at 10:46:37
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: How can anyone be a Republican after things like this? |
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the new maga-GOP do not care about people suffering,
they only care about what Trump wants them to do..and
what Trump wants is those people to suffer so he can
blame Biden/Harris.
This will backfire.
Just like killing the bi-partisen immigration bill
backfired.
Most of the people their strategizing to hurt..are
their own voters.
They are fine throwing their own states under the bus,
all those people under the bus, for their own political
advantage. They're not human beings to them, they're
calculated political strategy for a man who's desperate
to stay out of jail.
This is where the evil is so evident.
There is another major hurricane coming, too.
This is anything but Christian.
Trump is anything but Christian. I hope those
Christians misled will wake up before it's too late.
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Date: October 07, 2024 at 12:06:40
From: The Hierophant, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: How can anyone be a Republican after things like this? |
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There are SOOO many who were hit hard by Helene and now,
it looks like Milton. But they are the ones who are not
getting the news or information due to infrastructure
destruction. Unfortunately, the magagop will spin this
all into the Democrats fault.
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