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Full list of Republicans who voted against FEMA funding before Helene hit
(www.newsweek.com)
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The reason they voted against it is because alot of other things where bundled in the bill. Congress should put forth a bill for FEMA funding only so that they could help people
Not necessarily about this bill in particular but I hate the bill bundling bullshit in general. Sometimes the bill appears to be about something I care about but in the bill is a ton of irrelevant stuff that sometimes I absolutely hate. I wish this wasn't able to work like this it's deceptive on purpose
Agreed, especially because lobbyists will get shit that otherwise wouldn't pass to be bundled in the bill. One example is the infrastructure bill and all the non-infrastructure related stuff they put in there
Be more specific
What was bundled with it specifically that was bad?
I'm willing to bet the bundling of other items (If any) were relevant items
It was mainly more money for Ukraine, but now they're saying stuff about FEMA spending money on illegal migrants or something along those lines (which is not true)
Nice try. But no.
I bet that the amount of singular bills getting passed through both the house and senate that has spent money on helping common citizens is close to nil in the past decade.
There is no scenario in which what you describe is the reasoning for the bill getting voted against, especially by republicans.
You're reasoning feels like gymnastics to make republicans look good as you don't have an easy argument to make.
They bundle things into bills all the time to make the other side vote on them or look like the bad guy, by using the American citizen as hostage. I wonder why so little bills passed on helping the common man. I'm not taking the Republicans side here but it's not black and white. Everyone's reply to the concept of why the Republicans blocked it has been doubt, and it seems the "only" plausible explanation is that they're all being petty and want to blame democrats for the failed FEMA response.
wait until you figure out that literally every funding bill for everything has earmarked funding in basically every category.
It's also not uncommon to push through a large monolithic funding bill since it's simply easier than managing like 12 different pieces of legislation instead.
What you sound like:
Clever, here's what you sound like
Reply once more for more thought provoking debate
debate is boring though, bloodsports is more exciting
You straight up lied, nobody owes you a debate.
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How can someone check what else was in this h bill? Genuinely curious.
It's hella long so you can just skim it, but the actual text is here
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2882/text
PDF version https://www.congress.gov/118/bills/hr2882/BILLS-118hr2882enr.pdf