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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The hurricane relief should have been passed weeks ago and it’s a travesty that it wasn’t. We give billions to other countries and don’t look after our own law abiding citizens who usually look after themselves but were unlucky enough to be affected by a natural disaster.[/quote]

Democrats refused to vote on it as a standalone bill.[/quote]

No, honey, the REPUBLICANS control the House, where all appropriations must start and they waited on it. Even though Biden asked them to get to it sooner. Look, we even have Mike Johnson on the record.

https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2024/10/14/speaker-johnson-says-it-is--premature--to-call-congress-back-to-pass-more-funds-to-recovery-from-hurricanes-milton--helene

[quote][b]The Republican speaker noted that the short-term spending bill that Congress passed to keep the government funded through mid-December before leaving town last month included $20 billion in funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA. [u]He made the case that the pot of money means additional funding “can wait” until Congress is scheduled to return after the November election.[/u] [/b]

FEMA and the Biden administration have said that the agency has enough funds to respond to the immediate needs of people on the ground following the storms. At the same time, Biden warned Congressional leaders in a letter earlier this month that the Small Business Administration’s disaster loan program, which he said is “often the largest source of Federal disaster recovery funds” for disaster survivors, was set to run out of funds “well before” lawmakers are set to return to Washington. The president spent much of last week calling on Johnson and Congress to “step up” in allocating more funds.

“The SBA is pretty right at the edge right now and I think the Congress should be coming back and moving on the emergency needs immediately,” Biden said last week. “And they’re gonna have to come back after the election as well. This is gonna be a long haul for total rebuilding.”[/quote][/quote]

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