By Amber Phillips Amber Phillips Reporter for The Fix covering Congress, statehouses Email Bio Follow May 24 at 2:21 PM California wildfires. Severe flooding in the Midwest. A hurricane in the Florida panhandle. Puerto Rico still struggling to recover from 2017′s Hurricane Maria.
There are a few reasons for the politicization of disaster aid, says Molly Reynolds, a congressional expert at the Brookings Institution who carefully follows spending debates: A 2016 bill to fight the Zika virus, for example, got held up when conservatives attached a provision to restrict federal grants to provide services like birth control to women in Puerto Rico. While discussing this particular disaster relief bill, Reynolds wrote to The Fix in an email, “Congress debated agricultural items, the Violence Against Women Act, and something involving the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund” that Sen. Richard C. Shelby wanted. Plus Trump’s border wall.
That’s not always the party line today, but budget austerity is more of a factor than it used to be. The cost of today’s $19 billion bill is one reason Rep. Chip Roy objected to Friday’s unanimous consent vote. The process was another: Unanimous consent is a type of voting that allows bills to pass without most lawmakers being in the chamber. But it can get held up by just one lawmaker objecting.
Once it got over that hurdle, Roy held it up the House. Even though the president was okay with no border wall funding, Roy wanted it.
It's not a climate change (You call it so) however it's not that, perhaps it's something unbalanced in the and on the earth.
Except climate change isn't getting worse. Not compared to anything we can measure and even subjectively worse than what exactly ? How it was last week, last year, a thousand years ago, one million years ago ?
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Trump sold the EPA to former industry, allowing mass deregulation despite pollution, animal extinctions and human cost. Here’s NatGeo’s ongoing list of all environmental protection cut since 2016.
The Federal government only wants to “fund bigly wars” and “international bigly trade deals”. They pass it on like a virus that will never be cured ! VoteThemAllout GOP doesn’t care!
Ayyyyyy the meek shall inherit the earth while the rich folks build their own space stations and watch us die. Sweeeeeet.
We the people are the government. The US people do not care. If they did each politician would do their part. By not counting their own carbon footprint and saying” this us the works we live in” is hypocritical. This independentvoter is being forced to love Trump. Lol.
Yeah , you wouldn’t want to help the “ wrong Americans “ would you ?
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昔の方が気候災害多かった。 論点すり替えて迫害行為を正当化しないように。 未来は言う、陰湿な迫害集団達ばかりだと。
Just shut up. Nobody believes your lies any more.
but they always seem to be able to fund wars, that's the strange thing