Mike Johnson: There's No Rush For Congress To Approve Hurricane Relief

[Jilly_in_VA]

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said he won’t call Congress back into session early to fast-track emergency funding for hurricane victims, arguing that there’s no rush since “it takes a while to calculate the actual damages.”

“We’ll be back in session immediately after the election,” he said in an interview with “Fox News Sunday.”

“That’s 30 days from now. The thing about these hurricanes and disasters of this magnitude is it takes a while to calculate the actual damages, and the states are going to need some time to do that,” he continued.

Members of Congress left Capitol Hill late last month to focus on campaigning in their home states. They are scheduled to return on Nov. 12, a week after Election Day.

President Joe Biden had asked lawmakers to hasten the approval of about $1.6 billion in federal funding towards the Small Business Administration’s disaster loan program, which Biden said will run out of funding in weeks.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-johnson-congress-wont-vote-early-hurricane-relief_n_6703e86fe4b097cbbcb61d21

That sorry little weenie would have called them back yesterday if Helene had hit his state!

[Shermann]

1. Another real headline that I thought must be from the Onion. nt

[Dem2theMax]

32. I started reading the post, and had to check the link.

Jaw dropped when I realized it wasn't from The Onion.

How do you spell Republican? 'EVIL.'

[lees1975]

2. He's from Louisiana. They just had one this summer. September as a matter of fact.

How stupid can one Congressman be? But his district isn't on the coast, so it's better to save money than spend it on people whose home being destroyed is their own fault for living where a hurricane can hit it.

[Klarkashton]

3. He is trying to piss off voters. They will push real hard

To put the blame on Harris for this delay.

[BattleRow]

19. Beyond despicable..a threat to the

entire state and country considering the number of oil refineries,LNG facilities,and Strategic Petroleum Reserve on the coastline of Louisiana.

[Skittles]

4. republican voters need to WAKE THE FUCK UP

THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT YOU

[OAITW r.2.0]

29. Or us, either.

[PedroXimenez]

5. "we'd rather run on a problem than fix the problem" n/t

[BattleRow]

15. If you're not part of the solution,then

you're part of the problem.

[OAITW r.2.0]

30. They don't know how to fix problems.

But, they are really good at creating them.

[BoRaGard]

6. Republican House: AWOL

The repubes always go AWOL when the country needs them,
they think Americans are all "suckers and losers."

[COL Mustard]

43. They are onto something

A significant number of American voters are suckers and losers. There’s no way an educated electorate falls for this bullshit.

[keep_left]

7. "Anything the government does is socialist...

...and the more the government does, the socialist-er it is!"

https://democraticunderground.com/100219530804#post19

This is, as Richard Pryor's aphorism goes, "the logical conclusion of the logic". When politicians go around mouthing thought-terminating clichés like "community = communism" or quoting Thatcher's line "there is no such thing as society" like it's wisdom of the ages...well, this is eventually what you get!

[DFW]

8. Someone who is cold, sick, homeless and starving can surely wait thirty days

I’ll bet Johnson is willing to do it himself, just to show America that there is no hardship involved.

Aren’t you, Mike?

Mike?

Are you still there?

Hello?

[Rebl2]

9. Another

ad in the making for the Harris campaign—I hope.

[EleanorR]

10. They'll ramp up the musk / Putin propaganda machine saying Biden is refusing to help

They will lie about anything and everything, and they absolutely do not care who suffers or dies because of it. Power hungry psychopaths the lot.

[wiggs]

11. The GOP is not interested in solving problems. nt

[mountain grammy]

12. I think Mike Johnson is the second worst person in America

right after that other guy. Speaker of the House. what a travesty!

[BattleRow]

16. Mike Johnson and Clay Higgins..put

the lousy in Louisiana.

[Hekate]

13. I hope Li'l Pervy gets everything coming to him -- soon

[msongs]

14. translation - screw victims, wer're not doing anything tht makes biden/harris look good

but he forgets western NC is heavily republican

[surfered]

17. I bet he would think differently if his district was in the path.

My Congressman voted against extending funding for FEMA while Helene was in the Gulf and we live on the Gulf Coast.

[surfered]

18. I think MAGA has progressed from America First...

…to my State first, to my District first.

[Clouds Passing]

39. To me first

[COL Mustard]

45. Last winter it was so cold

I saw a politician with his hands in his own pockets.

[surfered]

51. Forgotten that one🤣

[oldsoftie]

20. If money runs out then Biden just needs to do an EO to get it

By the time any lawsuit can make it thru court they'll be back in session.
Screw 'em, just take the kidney from somewhere else and announce that you did it because the House is incompetent.

[slightlv]

22. Well, according to SCOTUS

doesn't Biden have the right and immunity to do this? It most definitely would fall under "official acts," after all!

[oldsoftie]

49. Yep; deal with it later!

[OAITW r.2.0]

35. I think this is an incredibly stupid move on Johnson's part.

Biden should do this exactly. Tomorrow, would not be too soon.

Mike says no hurry to reconvene during a national crisis? Screw that - do to XO and explain why the adults had to deal with the situation. The voters may just have a real revelation about the Republican Problem Creators. They never never solve problems, they can only create and exacerbate them.

[oldsoftie]

50. And it would expose Johnson even more nt

[OAITW r.2.0]

54. He knows his Speakership is done. Democrats will make him a minority leader. And not a good one.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

21. Please, please, please

let the next hurricane landfall be at least as powerful as Helene and Milton each. Hoping for one with the strength of either of those two. And then another similar hurricane a week later. And tell of damage could be done to a city as far inland as Asheville and I'm guessing Johnson's district is actually closer to the ocean than the NC city.

And all the rest of us can just shake our heads, say tsk,tsk, and point out that he doesn't believe in federal aid. Good luck to his state.

[ShazzieB]

47. Mike Johnsom is, without a doubt, a loathsome toad.

His hometown, Shreveport, is only a little over 300 miles from the Gulf coast, and parts of his district are much closer than that.

But wishing a crushingly powerful hurricane on an entire region populated by millions of people in order to punish him (much as he may deserve that punishment) seems rather extreme to me.

I'd be fine with him experiencing negative consequences for his general shitheelery, but I'd prefer consequences that are focused specifically on him and don't include catastrophic collateral damage.

Wishing natural disasters on millions of people? No, thank you.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

58. Wello, you are right, of course.

However, Mike Johnson doesn't care if people not in his district are in a crushingly powerful hurricane.

I like to think I'm simply holding D's to the same standards R's hold, which is to insult everyone they possibly can, and not give a flying fuck if others need federal aid for anything.

[ShazzieB]

59. I hear what you're sying, believe me.

I prefer to hold myself and other D's to a higher standard than Republicans set for themselves, rather than sink to their level. But I do understand wanting to give them a taste of their own medicine.

[PortTack]

23. He no doubt was told to do that by his master. With Milton bearing down on Fl, how is it they think the ppl of

Florida won’t notice?

[ananda]

24. Those Republicans are ALL sick fucks!

Just monstrous weasels.

[paleotn]

25. 3 months at best before Asheville gets it's water system fixed.

But no worries. Buncombe is a blue county. Fucking bastards.

[Cheezoholic]

26. God will save those affected BS I'm sure n/t

[dutch777]

27. Cool! Use it in the election ads in impacted states like NC...You are hurting and Repugs refuse to help

[Marthe48]

28. What a stupid man

stupid, out of control, cruel, sadistic, stupid.

[Figarosmom]

31. I sure hope voters are

Paying attention to this shit

[TomSlick]

33. Especially those in Florida that is expecting Hurricane Milton this week.

[spanone]

34. In reality, it's hard to believe anyone votes for these fucking vultures.

[Evolve Dammit]

36. What a worthless fuckwad. n/t

[patphil]

37. I hope the people in the affected states realize that it's Republicans who arew blowing them off.

You'd think he would be saying, "We're gonna take care of our folks."
This is a first class dumb ass move on his part; right before an election.
Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina are "in play".
Time for the Democrats to step up and make this an issue.

[AltairIV]

38. Asshole.

Must be nice having a part time job that pays $174,000 a year with automatic cost of living increases.

[Fla Dem]

40. Oh MY GOD!! What an insufferable piece of turd.

[Diraven]

41. The wait is so they can blame Biden and Harris

When they run out of money. Then if Trump wins the election they can immediately give credit to him, even though he won't be in office for months.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

42. President Biden can call their asses to order, if he deems it necessary...

Article II, Section 3:

He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in case of disagreement between them, with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper; he shall receive ambassadors and other public ministers; he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, and shall commission all the officers of the United States.

[gohuskies]

44. Mike 'Let them eat cake' Johnson

This bastard is playing politics to addressing the impact and assistance to victims of enormous natural disasters. He is about as ungodly and unChristian a son of a bitch there is. Nothing but a magat stooge for tRump. SICKENING!’n

[Emile]

46. Unfit for office if they don't have time to govern.

That's what we pay them for, to do their jobs.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

48. Mighty Xtian of you Speaker Moses

[OldPilot]

52. Mike Johnson

Mike Johnson is a miserable little twit. Smug and pompous.

[Freethinker65]

53. Vote these assholes out. Natural disasters is not the time for political games.

Do your jobs. Call the session. Pass the finding for Americans and American communities in need after a natural disaster, then go back to the usual petty divisive campaigning.

[keithbvadu2]

55. Mikey's statements should be on every application for help.

[milestogo]

56. What a heartless bastard.

[sakabatou]

57. Johnson: I've got mine, fuck you.