Mike Johnson Implies Conditions For California Wildfire Aid Is A 'Common Sense Notion'
Source: Huff Post
Jan 19, 2025, 03:44 PM EST
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said he wont commit to providing aid without conditions to the flame-engulfed region of Los Angeles County.
Johnson and other Republicans have been considering leveraging Californias need for aid and relief to advance political agendas as the fires rage on. On Sundays episode of Meet the Press, host Kristen Welker asked Johnson if he could commit to not binding California disaster relief to conditions, such as increasing the debt limit.
No, I wont commit that because we have a serious problem in California, Johnson said. Listen, there are natural disasters. Im from Louisiana, were prone to that. We understand how these things work. But then theres also human error, and when the state and local officials make foolish policy decisions that make the disaster exponentially worse, we need to factor that in, and I think thats a common sense notion.
But California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has called for expedited aid with no strings attached multiple times.
Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/speaker-mike-johnson-california-wildfire-aid_n_678d411ee4b0a4bfc4309304
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KT2000
(21,132 posts)on the coast that continue to be rebuilt after hurricanes, Johnson. Tell me about an entire city that was built below sea level. Tell me about putting chemical plants in wetlands.
alwaysinasnit
(5,297 posts)JT45242
(3,088 posts)Human error like having the army corps of engineers work very hard to keep the Mississippi River from doing it's normal meandering to prevent new Orleans from becoming a backwater town?
Human error like paying to rebuild oil refineries belie sea level near New Orleans over and over again after every hurricane
Human error like the mishandling of aid to line the pockets of rethugs like Brett Fabre and build sports facility rather than the intended uses
I could go on ...but this worthless blob fish needs to shut his pie hole.
Maybe, just maybe, he should read the first few verses of Isaiah 10 every day ...Isaiah 10:1-2 NIV
[1] Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, [2] to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.
https://bible.com/bible/111/isa.10.1-2.NIV
You won't find anything condemning abortion or transgender in the book, but this is pretty clear.
no_hypocrisy
(49,936 posts)My taxes have rebuilt New Orleans, Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolinas.
And Superstorm Sandy in 2011(?) in New Jersey and New York.
There were no conditions attached.
BumRushDaShow
(146,692 posts)Sandy was in 2012 but since NY & NJ were "blue states", the hubris out of the GOP, like you see today, was fierce. To the point where the GOP reps in the impacted states went ballistic when the initial funding was killed.
From DKos -
Hurricane/Super Storm Sandy hit in late October 2012 and emergency funding wasn't enacted until early January 2013.
JoseBalow
(6,363 posts)Truly they are all scumbags.
Karma13612
(4,733 posts)When a southeastern red state in Hurricane country gets decimated by the next big hurricane, the Democrats should demand the aid be conditional on reversing their abortion bans.
Seems pretty straightforward to me!
tanyev
(45,241 posts)and then send whatevers left to the federal government. Its just common sense.
JustAnotherGen
(34,268 posts)In the high cost of living blue states refused to file Income Taxes this year - it would put the Maga into a very difficult position.
Since 2019 when the Tax and Jobs Scam was inflicted on states like NJ - we've always had to pay another few hundred at tax time.
How to get it done? I don't know. But our additional payments go directly to the IRS.
A year without Blue State Democrats giving welfare to Louisiana? That's a wonderful thing.
Also - a small act of financial defiance? I commute 2 or 3 days a week to Bucks County PA (live ten minutes from the NJ/PA border) - I will not be spending a single penny in PA.
That's not a thing. No Dunkin hot chocolate, no sandwich from The Country Store, certainly no gas.
It's a small thing and I HOPE it hurts the white working class people in PA. I've never once been waited on by a person of color or Black American since I started there in August 2023.
JustAnotherGen
(34,268 posts)Told him to get lost.
So the Magat Party is going to have to do it with the Democratic Party electeds.
The Party just needs to hold the line.
Jit423
(820 posts)who lost all in these horrific fires should never vote Republican again, no matter where you live.
Zorro
(16,747 posts)Especially those in the South and Midwest. I suspect most of those have never even been to California.
I've witnessed it personally over many years. Some time back I flew my elderly mom and friend from Florida, and they were amazed and pointing out all the churches they saw as we drove around.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
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