Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) is disrespecting victims of the recent hurricane by referring to a failed bill that would fund relief as “a disaster,” the DSCC claims.Flake, who is running for Senate in Arizona, used the term to describe a Continuing Resolution put forward by Speaker Boehner that went down thanks to major defections from his party. Republicans, including Flake, complained that it set spending too high by using the recent debt ceiling agreement as a spending baseline instead of the GOP’s April budget.
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