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BumRushDaShow

(145,379 posts)
Tue Jan 14, 2025, 07:11 AM Tuesday

2 GOP Senators From Storm-Ravaged States Oppose Conditioning California Wildfire Aid

Source: Huff Post

Jan 13, 2025, 09:02 PM EST | Updated 9 hours ago


Republican lawmakers from states that have been ravaged by natural disasters oppose withholding or conditioning federal assistance to California residents impacted by the devastating Los Angeles wildfires. “I would ask those folks to put themselves in the same position as people of western North Carolina,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said of some conservatives who have suggested putting strings on federal aid to California. “You got to be consistent on disaster supplement, period. I’m unequivocal ― you fix the problems of those folks out there; we can talk about the problems we’ve created here, here,” he added.

Some Western North Carolina communities were wiped off the map last September after hurricanes Helene and Milton caused catastrophic flooding, causing tens of billions of dollars in damages and leaving more than 200 people dead across several other states. Last month, congressional leaders provided $100 billion for relief for those and other disasters, with no strings attached.

But now that a blue state has suffered a natural disaster, some Republicans have suggested withholding aid until California makes policy changes to its forest and water management, or its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. “There can’t be a blank check on this,” Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) said Sunday on CBS’s “Face The Nation, blaming “the policies of the liberal administration out there.” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) also told reporters on Monday that there’s some discussion of tying disaster aid to raising the debt limit.

Republicans want to raise the debt limit in part to finance an extension of the 2017 GOP tax cuts. “You can’t go out and get the kind of money that’s necessary in this unless you increase the debt limit,” Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) said Monday. But Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), a former governor of hurricane-prone Florida, said that Congress should act to provide relief to California wildfire victims without attaching conditions. “I think we ought to do aid the way we do everybody else,” Scott told HuffPost.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/california-wildfire-aid-condition_n_6785b576e4b02348137a134e

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2 GOP Senators From Storm-Ravaged States Oppose Conditioning California Wildfire Aid (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Tuesday OP
I would agree to this Hempcrete is fire-resistant rebuilding material Oneear Tuesday #1
Do you have investments in Hempcrete? maxsolomon Tuesday #8
These guys are hypocritical scum. yourout Tuesday #2
These two Senators bdamomma Tuesday #3
The irony is that the GOP's OWN fiscal hawks BumRushDaShow Tuesday #4
The whole debt ceiling thing is non-sensical, political theater. surfered Tuesday #5
Exactly the same occurred Blue Full Moon Tuesday #7
A Noun, A verb and DEI...... marmar Tuesday #6

Oneear

(230 posts)
1. I would agree to this Hempcrete is fire-resistant rebuilding material
Tue Jan 14, 2025, 07:28 AM
Tuesday

It must be the go-to material for building homes in LA County, California. A block plant close needs to be put up, so quick delivery is required.

maxsolomon

(35,500 posts)
8. Do you have investments in Hempcrete?
Tue Jan 14, 2025, 02:49 PM
Tuesday

There are other ways to build Fire-Resistant homes.


bdamomma

(66,950 posts)
3. These two Senators
Tue Jan 14, 2025, 08:39 AM
Tuesday

need to go to hell. So does that mean any blue state that has a devastation in a weather event those Senators are playing with peoples' lives. Horrible.

This comment makes me sick.

“There can’t be a blank check on this,” Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) said Sunday on CBS’s “Face The Nation, blaming “the policies of the liberal administration out there.” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) also told reporters on Monday that there’s some discussion of tying disaster aid to raising the debt limit.

"the policies of the liberal administration out there"

What about the policies of a fascist wing??? Senator Barrasso?

BumRushDaShow

(145,379 posts)
4. The irony is that the GOP's OWN fiscal hawks
Tue Jan 14, 2025, 08:49 AM
Tuesday
are the ones who DON'T want to raise the debt ceiling. It was something that they always threatened Democrats with - refusing to raise it - and some are actually threatening Johnson with the same refusal to raise it - even with it being needed to renew the tax cuts for billionaires mess.

surfered

(4,148 posts)
5. The whole debt ceiling thing is non-sensical, political theater.
Tue Jan 14, 2025, 09:41 AM
Tuesday

Every dollar spent was appropriated by law and they know from the budget whether or not money will have to be borrowed.

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