7mo ago

Full list of Republicans who voted against FEMA funding before Helene hit

www.newsweek.com

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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7mo ago

Full List of Republicans Who Voted Against FEMA Funding Before Helene Hit

www.newsweek.com /republicans-voted-against-fema-funding-1963980

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- As always, for these ghouls the cruelty IS the point.
  
  What a useful comment.
- Of course it's Jim motherfucking Jordan.
  
  *Gym
  
  MTG is right there with him. And her state was devastated by Helene.
- Vote out every last one of them.

Just to be clear, only Republicans voted against this.
Inb4 “Why are they only talking about Republican no votes???”
- Can’t let the libs have a win! Even at the cost of hundreds or thousands of lives.
  
  Some of you will die, but that's a price I'm willing to pay.

Don't worry. Fema will run out of money before the end of hurricane season and Christian Nationalist Mike Johnson has refused to hold any votes giving it additional funding until after the election.
Democrats need to be pushing this out into the public consciousness hard, so when Fema does run out of money and people in dire need can't get help, they know who to blame.
- Yup, just air Mike Johnson saying "I won't hold votes on this until the election is over". The ad copy writes itself: Republicans don't care how many of you or your loved ones die.
- I said the same thing. Harris needs to player this on ads everywhere.

One would think the next senate/house election in an area saying, "This guy voted against disaster relief for a disaster that directly affected you" would be an absolute killer, but some of these folks would vote for Lucifer if he had a R next to his name.
- And would refuse to vote for Jesus if he ran as a Dem.
  
  They would refuse to vote for Jesus because he's to woke, regardless of party. XD
- Her name is R-Kamala Harris.
  Instant win!
- "How could I possibly vote for the DEMONcrat party?" - the qons, probably.
- I‘d much rather have Lucifer in power than any republican.
  
  Stupid sexy Lucifer, or the even hotter version the other brother sculpted?
- Well all these representatives go back to their districts and then lie about it. And they say they voted for the relief but Biden denied it.
  In fact, only one request has been denied in recent memory and it was by Trump.

- here's a list of democrats that voted against this funding:
  N/A
  FTFY (null is technically a value and we don't want to confuse people /s)
  
  All North American congressmen? Hah! Checkmate librulz!

Part of me wishes we could simply not help these states. But there are people among them that don't deserve it.
- It's more than unfair, it's wicked that the majority of people are being represented by minority voices. It's costing lives that we aren't fixing this.
  Please, please please people, get more involved in your state and county and community politics so these people stop running uncontested and unexposed.
  
  And even when it doesn't actually kill people, it's ruining people's lives and fun in ways they often will never recover from.

- I still love the fact that "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" is a joke because it's obviously impossible, and republicans were just too fucking stupid to get it so they're like "lol this is our economic policy"
- These idiots think FEMA is for death camps not disaster relief so in thier conspiracy ridden easily controlled minds, republicans who voted no are heroes.
  sometimes I wonder how we haven't gone extinct but then I remember we've been working on it (climate change) for a long time.

I'm a Republican directly effected by this and I'm HAPPY they voted AGAINST it! This Bill that would have saved my Life ALSO allowed TRANS KIDS to Exist! And it's JOE BIDENS fault that Republicans voted against it anyways!
- 🤣🤣🤣

How else do you get to stir shit about fema not having funds if they are properly funded?

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.
- Spite is their default setting.
- 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.

It makes sense. The only people killed by Helene were gays, immigrants (there were no immigrants in Eden!), and this one guy who was "curious" about being an immigrant. /s

there should be an organization that just puts these names on billboards around the country or something, i think that would be funny.
It happens often enough you could easily make this a thing anyway.

Why are we giving NC anything? They need to develop personnel responsibility. Also this is gods judgement on them for something. /s I am trying to replicate GOP thinking. How did I do?

Now the orange supporting shit stains have Hurricane Milton on their hands.

Hey all, you can go here to find out who your representatives in the House and Senate are and then just type "(person name) official contact" in to your search engine to find out how to email them and let them know what you think of their vote. I sent two angry emails and, surprisingly, one thankful one.

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.

8 floridiots

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).

and faux snooze clip interviewing victims complaining about fema. the duh

Maybe just move people out permanently and settle them down in a location that is not earthquake, fire or flooding prone? Is there such a place in the US?

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The reason they voted against it is because alot of other things where bundled in the bill. Congress should put forth a bill for FEMA funding only so that they could help people
- Not necessarily about this bill in particular but I hate the bill bundling bullshit in general. Sometimes the bill appears to be about something I care about but in the bill is a ton of irrelevant stuff that sometimes I absolutely hate. I wish this wasn't able to work like this it's deceptive on purpose
  
  Agreed, especially because lobbyists will get shit that otherwise wouldn't pass to be bundled in the bill. One example is the infrastructure bill and all the non-infrastructure related stuff they put in there
- Be more specific
  What was bundled with it specifically that was bad?
  I'm willing to bet the bundling of other items (If any) were relevant items
  
  It was mainly more money for Ukraine, but now they're saying stuff about FEMA spending money on illegal migrants or something along those lines (which is not true)
- Nice try. But no.
  I bet that the amount of singular bills getting passed through both the house and senate that has spent money on helping common citizens is close to nil in the past decade.
  There is no scenario in which what you describe is the reasoning for the bill getting voted against, especially by republicans.
  You're reasoning feels like gymnastics to make republicans look good as you don't have an easy argument to make.
  
  They bundle things into bills all the time to make the other side vote on them or look like the bad guy, by using the American citizen as hostage. I wonder why so little bills passed on helping the common man. I'm not taking the Republicans side here but it's not black and white. Everyone's reply to the concept of why the Republicans blocked it has been doubt, and it seems the "only" plausible explanation is that they're all being petty and want to blame democrats for the failed FEMA response.
- wait until you figure out that literally every funding bill for everything has earmarked funding in basically every category.
  It's also not uncommon to push through a large monolithic funding bill since it's simply easier than managing like 12 different pieces of legislation instead.
- Clever, here's what you sound like
  Well, ackshually shidding noises
  Reply once more for more thought provoking debate
- How can someone check what else was in this h bill? Genuinely curious.
  
  It's hella long so you can just skim it, but the actual text is here
  https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2882/text
  PDF version https://www.congress.gov/118/bills/hr2882/BILLS-118hr2882enr.pdf

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