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As Hurricane Helene careened toward Florida's Panhandle, numerous Republicans voted against extending funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

Last week, Congress approved $20 billion for FEMA's disaster relief fund as part of a stopgap spending bill to fund the government through December 20. But the measure left out billions of dollars in requested supplemental disaster funding.

The Senate approved the measure by a 78-18 vote on September 25 after it passed the House in a 341-82 vote. Republicans supplied the no votes in both chambers.

Some of the Republicans who voted against the bill represent states that have been hard hit by Helene, including Florida Representative Matt Gaetz.


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[-] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

Anyone else think there should be some kind of Nuremberg trial for these people?

[-] Breezy@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

Fuck Florida is what our planet is saying. With the things we do, and all the things we ignore, Florida will be gone in like a hundred years. There ate people who are making things worse, and i really don't know how we will recover.

[-] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 40 points 1 day ago

Absolutely ridiculous that Newsweek would post this biased one-sided list. Why only list the GOP "no" votes?! Both sides!

Here's a list of all the Democrats that voted against FEMA funding:

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 23 hours ago

here's a list of democrats that voted against this funding:

N/A

FTFY (null is technically a value and we don't want to confuse people /s)

[-] bitwaba@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

All North American congressmen? Hah! Checkmate librulz!

[-] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 9 points 23 hours ago

What is absolutely absurd to me is the fact that there are votes against from Texas, Florida, and Louisiana. The three states who vastly out consume the FEMA budget annually since 2015.

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Spite is their default setting.

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

This just in!.... San Diego California, a city of millions of American tax payers is currently suffering from a huge, never before seen unprecedented amount of horribly fine weather. A western front of sunshine this morning will be overcome by torrential sunshine in the evening and it will be like that for 8 straight days and 9 gay days. In the neighboring city of La Jolla, the sun will come out as gay after the morning mist of horribly refreshing sea water. The gayness of the 🌞 will start with a 🌈 rainbow and end with another devastating rainbow 🌈. Several people in LA have identified what appears to be a cloud. Sources say it is homeless, but that is the least of their problems. Now back to you Seattle!........yes here in Seattle we will have rain, followed by slightly less rain and then more rain.

[-] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 20 points 1 day ago

I'm a Republican directly effected by this and I'm HAPPY they voted AGAINST it! This Bill that would have saved my Life ALSO allowed TRANS KIDS to Exist! And it's JOE BIDENS fault that Republicans voted against it anyways!

[-] caboose2006@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

🤣🤣🤣

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 23 hours ago

there should be an organization that just puts these names on billboards around the country or something, i think that would be funny.

It happens often enough you could easily make this a thing anyway.

[-] KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

And now we are going to see if those same Republicans vote against FEMA funding before Milton hits and does destruction to the 'Happiest Place On Earth' in Orlando' and are going to need to be voted out a month from now (if their seat is up for election this year).

[-] donescobar@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

How else do you get to stir shit about fema not having funds if they are properly funded?

[-] Consumer2747@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Hey all, you can go here to find out who your representatives in the House and Senate are and then just type "(person name) official contact" in to your search engine to find out how to email them and let them know what you think of their vote. I sent two angry emails and, surprisingly, one thankful one.

[-] m3t00@lemmy.world 0 points 15 hours ago

and faux snooze clip interviewing victims complaining about fema. the duh

[-] Stern@lemmy.world 61 points 1 day ago

One would think the next senate/house election in an area saying, "This guy voted against disaster relief for a disaster that directly affected you" would be an absolute killer, but some of these folks would vote for Lucifer if he had a R next to his name.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

"How could I possibly vote for the DEMONcrat party?" - the qons, probably.

[-] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago

And would refuse to vote for Jesus if he ran as a Dem.

[-] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 day ago

They would refuse to vote for Jesus because he's to woke, regardless of party. XD

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They would refuse to vote for Jesus because he's a non-white Middle Easterner with a Mexican name.

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Her name is R-Kamala Harris.

Instant win!

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[-] MicroWave@lemmy.world 188 points 2 days ago

Below are all the GOP lawmakers that voted against that bill:

House:

  • Representative James Baird of Indiana

  • Representative Troy Balderson of Ohio

  • Representative Jim Banks of Indiana

  • Representative Aaron Bean of Florida

  • Representative Andy Biggs of Arizona

  • Representative Gus Bilirakis of Florida

  • Representative Dan Bishop of North Carolina

  • Representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado

  • Representative Mike Bost of Illinois

  • Representative Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma

  • Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee

  • Representative Eric Burlison of Missouri

  • Representative Kat Cammack of Florida

  • Representative Michael Cloud of Texas

  • Representative Andrew Clyde of Georgia

  • Representative Mike Collins of Georgia

  • Representative Eli Crane of Arizona

  • Representative John Curtis of Utah

  • Representative Warren Davidson of Ohio

  • Representative Byron Donalds of Florida

  • Representative Jeff Duncan of South Carolina

  • Representative Ron Estes of Kansas

  • Representative Mike Ezell of Mississippi

  • Representative Randy Feenstra of Iowa

  • Representative Brad Finstad of Minnesota

  • Representative Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota

  • Representative Russell Fry of South Carolina

  • Representative Russ Fulcher of Idaho

  • Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida

  • Representative Tony Gonzales of Texas

  • Representative Bob Good of Virginia

  • Representative Lance Gooden of Texas

  • Representative Paul Gosar of Arizona

  • Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia

  • Representative Morgan Griffith of Virginia

  • Representative Michael Guest of Mississippi

  • Representative Harriet Hageman of Wyoming

  • Representative Andy Harris of Maryland

  • Representative Clay Higgins of Louisiana

  • Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio

  • Representative John Joyce of Pennsylvania

  • Representative Trent Kelly of Mississippi

  • Representative Darin LaHood of Illinois

  • Representative Laurel Lee of Florida

  • Representative Debbie Lesko of Arizona

  • Representative Greg Lopez of Colorado

  • Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida

  • Representative Morgan Lutrell of Texas

  • Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina

  • Representative Tracey Mann of Kansas

  • Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky

  • Representative Tom McClintock of California

  • Representative Rich McCormick of Georgia

  • Representative Mary Miller of Illinois

  • Representative Max Miller of Ohio

  • Representative Cory Mills of Florida

  • Representative Alex Mooney of West Virginia

  • Representative Barry Moore of Alabama

  • Representative Nathaniel Moran of Texas

  • Representative Ralph Norman of South Carolina

  • Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee

  • Representative Gary Palmer of Alabama

  • Representative Scott Perry of Pennsylvania

  • Representative Bill Posey of Florida

  • Representative John Rose of Tennessee

  • Representative Matt Rosendale of Montana

  • Representative Chip Roy of Texas

  • Representative David Schweikert of Arizona

  • Representative Keith Self of Texas

  • Representative Victoria Spartz of Indiana

  • Representative Claudia Tenney of New York

  • Representative William Timmons of South Carolina

  • Representative Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey

  • Representative Beth Van Duyne of Texas

  • Representative Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin

  • Representative Mike Waltz of Florida

  • Representative Randy Weber of Texas

  • Representative Daniel Webster of Florida

  • Representative Bruce Westerman of Arkansas

  • Representative Roger Williams of Texas

  • Representative Rudy Yakym of Indiana

Senate:

  • Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee
  • Senator Mike Braun of Indiana
  • Senator Katie Britt of Alabama
  • Senator Ted Budd of North Carolina
  • Senator Mike Crapo of Idaho
  • Senator Deb Fischer of Nebraska
  • Senator Bill Hagerty of Tennessee
  • Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri
  • Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin
  • Senator Mike Lee of Utah
  • Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas
  • Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma
  • Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky
  • Senator Pete Ricketts of Nebraska
  • Senator James Risch of Idaho
  • Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri
  • Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina
  • Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama
[-] undercrust@lemmy.ca 54 points 2 days ago

As always, for these ghouls the cruelty IS the point.

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[-] Nougat@fedia.io 149 points 2 days ago

Just to be clear, only Republicans voted against this.

Inb4 “Why are they only talking about Republican no votes???”

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[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

8 floridiots

[-] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago

Part of me wishes we could simply not help these states. But there are people among them that don't deserve it.

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[-] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 62 points 2 days ago

Don't worry. Fema will run out of money before the end of hurricane season and Christian Nationalist Mike Johnson has refused to hold any votes giving it additional funding until after the election.

Democrats need to be pushing this out into the public consciousness hard, so when Fema does run out of money and people in dire need can't get help, they know who to blame.

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