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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said he won’t call Congress back into session early to fast-track emergency funding for hurricane victims, arguing that there’s no rush since “it takes a while to calculate the actual damages.”
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Mike Johnson hypocrisy alert!
Apparently in Louisiana calculating actual damages happens even before the hurricane hits. Here on Mike Johnson’s own fucking website is Mike urging President Biden to approve relief funding for Hurricane Ida in 2021 even before landfall.
I’m going to put a screenshot of the website here because I don’t trust Mike to not take it down:
The important part here: "Due to the ongoing recovery from hurricanes and storms over the last year and the COVID-19 pandemic, the State of Louisiana has determined this incident is of such severity that supplementary federal assistance is necessary to protect its people and communities”
edit: It looks like they scrubbed the actual letter on the house.gov website. Dead link is: https://clayhiggins.house.gov/sites/clayhiggins.house.gov/files/8.27.21 LA CODEL Ida Declaration.pdf
They scrubbed the actual letter??? Dafuq…
Edit:
Guessing this was before Trump lied about FEMA assistance so Trump barked out some orders to deny more for now so he can be right. Politically I can see how it’d hurt Democrats, so maybe not Trump’s idea,which is even worse because in the end it’ll be the residents who have to deal with it. It’d be nice if people were taught to vote with empathy as well as in their own best interests beyond their bank account.
And wanna bet next week he’s blaming biden and the democrats for it?
This limp chode thinks nothing of fucking americans over, in a bid to stay in power. and what’s worse is his voter base doesn’t realize they’re the one’s he’s fucking over the hardest.
The voter base is mentally unable to understand that part of their misery is consequence of the people they elect into power
Only reason I’d lose that bet is… this week is still young.
Translation: so when people get nothing from FEMA, they can blame it on Biden/Harris because Trump isn’t president.
DeSantis wouldn’t want socialized federal relief funding anyway. He’s gonna pull Florida up by his white, thigh high bootstraps and save everyone impacted by the hurricane with only Florida’s money.
It’s ILLEGAL to talk about Hurricanes. Problem solved!
I mean, DeSantis has already banned mention of climate change and its effects from curriculums and government docs, so you’re not far off
Let’s pretend to be fiscal conservatives and then give tax cuts to the wealthy at every available opportunity
You’d think that the Speaker of the House would know what the word EMERGENCY means 🤦🤬
Bold of you assuming ignorance instead of malice out of any republican, let alone the radical evangelical wing of the party.
Mike Johnson is a Nationalist Christian. He does not care about that. He only cares about gaining and keeping power for himself and his faction as much and as long as he can
Sounds kind of like a domestic enemy
Absolute fucking ghoul.
Democrats need to be the party of hurricane relief. I hate that their party line is basically “governance, no more no less” but holy hell look at the other option
Who wants to bet if Israel starts another war and needs funding congress will instantly be in session?
What a cunt.
