Democrats Strongarm Divided GOP to Okay Billions for Migration, Ukraine
Democrats will help House Speaker Kevin McCarthy avoid a government shutdown in exchange for $3.3 billion to accelerate the migrant inflow.
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Democrats will help House Speaker Kevin McCarthy avoid a government shutdown in exchange for $3.3 billion to accelerate the migrant inflow.
Devastating tornadoes we saw earlier this year, the national atmospheric and oceanic administration says there have been more than 15 events already this year that have totalled over $1 billion in damages. and now fema is saying they need more money or they're going to have to start prioritizing and putting ahead life saving operations over recovery operations. so some places that are devastated like maui, those recovery operations could be pushed into the next year if they don't get more funding. fema administrate deanne criswell spoke about this and the urgent need for more funding over the ...
Funding, we face a government shutdown, what are you going to do? >> one of the things we always take into consideration when we are doing our analysis of where we are at is incidents just like this. what we saw on maui is what we are seeing in california. we still anticipate that we will have a shortage of funding at our current spending levels by mid-september. and so what we will do is we will continue to push, we will push recovery projects into the next fiscal year, so we always have enough money to support any immediate s. take measures ensure there will be enough funding to support imme...
I think what he will be able to do is reassure the people of maui that he's there to support them and we're doing it in a way to rebuild the way they want to rebuild, and i think that's the biggest message that he's going to be able to get across, right? that we are here for them and we are going to help them with their vision for how they want to rebuild lahaina. >> big picture, you said last month that people's disaster relief fund could run out of money by the end of the month. we're dealing with maay and we have this potential hurricane in the -- on the west coast, congress is in an absolu...
Nation on the line and now they are responsible for the second downgrade in our credit rating. houses are going to play out question of september you've got a lot of funding bills that seem to be on a rocky path at this point. >> earlier this year the house caucus a bunch of conservative entire republican conference and i bind a spending bill the 2022 levels that is to return bureaucracy to pre-covet spending levels of poles off the charts. but we have seen since memorial day when in fact a bad deal was cut another fortune dollars of borrowing was blessed by congress the president signed it, w...