Poor Teddy Cruz, he’s gonna live his entire political career having people remind him of his past dickish ways. I’ll buy lunch for the first member of US Congress to verbal b*tch slap him into a crying fetal position for denying aid to Sandy victims while pleading for disaster money for Texas more then once. – PB/TK
Hurricane Harvey Aftermath Could Cause a Political Storm – By Bloomberg (msn.com) / Aug 26 2017
With Hurricane Harvey set to be the most damaging storm to hit the U.S. in a dozen years, Congress may be called upon to provide billions in extra storm relief this fall to help with the recovery.
That could put Texas Republican Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz — and Vice President Mike Pence — in a political bind, forcing them to choose between quick aid and their own past demands for spending cuts to offset emergency disaster funds.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster relief fund had just $3.8 billion as of July 31, with most of that set to be spent by the end of September. The House has proposed adding $6.8 billion in the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1.
Those funds are likely insufficient. A report Friday from CoreLogic estimated that Hurricane Harvey would cause $39.6 billion of damage alone to homes in its immediate path. That figure is closer to the aid package that Congress approved in early 2013 for the East Coast to recover from Superstorm Sandy, which topped $50 billion.
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