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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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.
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.
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
No worries, I accept responsibility - I must have phrased it badly or something.
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.
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!
The dude who shares jerkoff information with his son and can’t be bothered to help the people of this country.
All of the Republicans and those that continue to vote for them are just fuckin’ weird.
Hey Chuck, are you finally willing to admit you were wrong all along? Survival of the fittest sounds good, but if you just kinda… look around… you can clearly see all the evidence against that theory, right?
Well, fittest doesn’t necessarily mean the smartest.
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?
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.
Man of God, everyone…
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.
Did you all read the article? This dude is a slimy, Christo-fascist sack of shit, but the article title makes it seem like him and other Republican dick bags are withholding aid to the hurricane ravaged areas, which isn’t apparent in the article:
“‘Well, it can wait because, remember, the day before Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida and then went up through the states and wound up in Senator Tillis’s state of North Carolina, Congress appropriated 20 billion additional dollars to FEMA so that they would have the necessary resources to address immediate needs,’ Johnson said.”
“FEMA officials say they have sufficient resources to respond to the pair of hurricanes until Congress returns, but they also indicated nearly half that money (10b) is already spent.”
This seems more like shitty political theater to me, though if it gets magats to somehow not vote for a crazed lunatic I’m all for it.
They’ll still vote Republican.
They’d rather do nothing because they want to maximize the pain for the people and make their lies resonate more with voters.
Also, it’s kind of hard to vote if the polling places are gone,
I’m very excited for republicans to then pretend this never happened and blame Biden for not aiding hurricane victims :')
I hope this guy’s genitals get infested with the fleas of 1000 camels.
Mike “disaster victims can wait” Johnson.
The follow up question should have been:
What if your failure to send aid causes enough poor dumb republican voters to die to cost you the election?
What direction would Tampa swing the election?
