As Hurricane Helene careened toward Florida’s Panhandle, numerous Republicans voted against extending funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
Last week, Congress approved $20 billion for FEMA’s disaster relief fund as part of a stopgap spending bill to fund the government through December 20. But the measure left out billions of dollars in requested supplemental disaster funding.
The Senate approved the measure by a 78-18 vote on September 25 after it passed the House in a 341-82 vote. Republicans supplied the no votes in both chambers.
Some of the Republicans who voted against the bill represent states that have been hard hit by Helene, including Florida Representative Matt Gaetz.
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Anyone else think there should be some kind of Nuremberg trial for these people?
Fuck Florida is what our planet is saying. With the things we do, and all the things we ignore, Florida will be gone in like a hundred years. There ate people who are making things worse, and i really don’t know how we will recover.
and faux snooze clip interviewing victims complaining about fema. the duh
And now we are going to see if those same Republicans vote against FEMA funding before Milton hits and does destruction to the ‘Happiest Place On Earth’ in Orlando’ and are going to need to be voted out a month from now (if their seat is up for election this year).
What is absolutely absurd to me is the fact that there are votes against from Texas, Florida, and Louisiana. The three states who vastly out consume the FEMA budget annually since 2015.
This just in!.. San Diego California, a city of millions of American tax payers is currently suffering from a huge, never before seen unprecedented amount of horribly fine weather. A western front of sunshine this morning will be overcome by torrential sunshine in the evening and it will be like that for 8 straight days and 9 gay days. In the neighboring city of La Jolla, the sun will come out as gay after the morning mist of horribly refreshing sea water. The gayness of the 🌞 will start with a 🌈 rainbow and end with another devastating rainbow 🌈. Several people in LA have identified what appears to be a cloud. Sources say it is homeless, but that is the least of their problems. Now back to you Seattle!..yes here in Seattle we will have rain, followed by slightly less rain and then more rain.
