With the Federal Emergency Management Agency reeling from major staffing and funding shortages amid the impact of Hurricane Helene, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) refused on Sunday to commit to reconvening the House before Election Day to aid recovery efforts. In response to a letter from President Biden urging congressional leaders back to replenish federal disaster loan funding, Johnson said during a Fox News Sunday interview that he’d only do so after the election—all but ensuring the funds will run out.

  • Cyborganism
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    15122 hours ago

    This is insane. They already got hit by a hurricane and an even bigger one, the biggest we have seen until now, is about to hit the same area. Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to send help. Even when Kamala wants to ask Desantis if they need more help, he refuses to speak to her.

    People will die over this political bs. I really hope they will realize how the republicans don’t give two shits about them and their well being.

    • @[email protected]
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      The GOP will kill as many people as is necessary to retain power. They’ve been doing this for many years now.

    • @[email protected]
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      I think Desantis and the phone call thing is mostly political theatre. She wants to look presidential. It’s understandable she wants to pursue this “opportunity,” but she’s just VP. Not a key role in this kind of thing.

      But Johnson refusing to fund disaster response is intended to prevent the Biden-Harris admin from doing it’s job and helping people in desperate situations. That’s fucked.

      • madjo
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        47 hours ago

        Had trump called, desantis would have wet himself in supplication.

      • HobbitFoot
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        1512 hours ago

        These sorts of phone calls are common, though. Desantis isn’t picking up Biden’s phone call either, and he isn’t running.

        • @[email protected]
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          28 hours ago

          The White House actually made an announcement that Biden and DeSantis had spoken.

          • HobbitFoot
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            48 hours ago

            Apparently this call happened Monday evening per the Miami Herald, after a lot of the criticism had been made.

      • @[email protected]
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        312 hours ago

        Having direct continuity with the next President is useful. There’s some plausible arguments (though by no means a slam dunk) that the delay in transition after the 2000 election left the Bush Admin unprepared and led to 9/11.

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      3420 hours ago

      And DeSantis has the gall to say that Harris’s offer was political.

      • @[email protected]
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        512 hours ago

        It is, but it’s also from a place of caring and genuinely wanting to help.

        • @[email protected]
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          13 hours ago

          Careful now. People can’t have more than one reason for doing something, that’s commie talk.