What, you mean congress can occasionally still do thing just a little bit useful?
If I read this article correctly, between Texas and Florida, they originally requested $46 billion for hurricane relief. That doesn’t include what Puerto Rico requested or needs. The total amount the Senate is allocating is nearly $10 billion less than what Texas and Florida asked for, and doesn’t account for PR, if that’s the case. A little less than half a billion for wildfires?? Who in the hell is doing tRump’s bean counting? They don’t mind giving massive tax cuts to the 1% but they can’t find enough money to pay for disaster mitigation and relief? That’s where these goopers put their priorities, you could say.
Also, it should be mentioned these Repukes have had 5 years to reauthorize the National Flood Insurance Program and have extended taking any action on that until the beginning of December. Its pretty hard to make people whole or even rebuild without that money available to jumpstart areas hard hit by this year’s disasters. So no NFIP, no CHIP (still), massive proposed cuts to FEMA funding in the GOP’s budget along with other vital agencies…but funding a dumb border wall??..Its enough to make you sick.
Also there’s this:
Ten days before Hurricane Harvey made landfall on the Texas coast, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to speed up the pipeline for federal infrastructure projects.
This EO got rid of an Obama (of course, who else?) era rule that said building pipelines should take into consideration changes from global warming and increased risk to flood zones, which the Obama administration had raised to a higher standard, that being a 500 year flood elevation. It also made building higher by two feet on property to a 100 year flood elevation, if the 500 year flood elevation was not utilized.
I guess the best you can hope for from this administration is that if you get hit by a disaster, hope and pray you live where tRump voters live (if you can stand the stench), otherwise you may have a hard time getting the kind of help you might need at some point.
Oh and don’t forget that they (and Dems) somehow found an extra $57.4 billion to give to the DoD on top of the $639.1 billion they actually asked for.
Don’t worry, the Trump “tax cuts” will surely make up for all this spending. Now, gaze directly into the mirror…