Dems whipping against emergency storm funding [View all]
Source: The Hill
BY MIKE LILLIS - 12/21/17 10:42 AM EST
House Democratic leaders are whipping against the Republicans’ $81 billion disaster aid package, Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Thursday, just hours before the bill is expected to hit the floor.
The Democrats have been pressing for a robust relief package addressing this year’s devastating hurricanes and wildfires, but Hoyer said the Democrats will oppose the GOP bill because it treats the victims in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands differently than those in the States. The Democrats, Hoyer said, want those territories “to be dealt with in a fair way.”
“It’s not in this bill,” Hoyer said, emerging from a Democratic whip meeting in the Capitol basement.
“Obviously, there are good things in the supplemental, but it continues to be [that] they put things in these bills they know we don’t like.”
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