I hope they all get voted out of office. House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, said on Sunday that he does not intend to call Congress out of recess to vote on emergency funding for federal agencies assisting in Hurricane Helene recovery efforts.
Johnson told Fox News Sunday‘s Shannon Bream that lawmakers will be “back in session immediately after the election” to provide any funding needs for states hit hardest by the Category 4 storm that made its way through the southeastern United States late last month.
“That’s 30 days from now,” the Republican leader said. “The thing about these hurricanes and disasters at this magnitude is it takes a while to calculate the actual damages, and the states are going to need some time to do that.”
(Newsweek)
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I hope they all get voted out of office. House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, said on Sunday that he does not intend to call Congress out of recess to vote on emergency funding for federal agencies assisting in Hurricane Helene recovery efforts.
Johnson told Fox News Sunday‘s Shannon Bream that lawmakers will be “back in session immediately after the election” to provide any funding needs for states hit hardest by the Category 4 storm that made its way through the southeastern United States late last month.
“That’s 30 days from now,” the Republican leader said. “The thing about these hurricanes and disasters at this magnitude is it takes a while to calculate the actual damages, and the states are going to need some time to do that.”
(Newsweek)