Title: VIDEO: No help for huricane victims unless Debt Ceiling is Raised - Paul Ryan (R) Source:
LIVE SATELLITE NEWS URL Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfjWIpnfjgQ Published:Sep 6, 2017 Author:Paul Ryan (R) Post Date:2017-09-06 17:51:26 by Hondo68 Keywords:None Views:3918 Comments:15
Poster Comment:
The worst argument for raising the debt ceiling, ever! He completely ignores State, Local, charities, and private, rescue and aid efforts.
He completely ignores State, Local, charities, and private, rescue and aid efforts.
He doesn't run any of those. He does control the House and its basic spending bill for FEMA and SBA. And he has to deal soon with the debt ceiling, one way or the other. He wants to raise it, Liberty Caucus members want to leave it but cut spending sharply. Chances are, they'll raise the debt limit and provide disaster relief after the Senate triples the price with add-on pork spending of all kinds.
The initial Sandy relief bill was around $8-$9 billion. This one for TX/LA is $7.5B or so. This pays for FEMA efforts and a smallish ($500M) SBA loan package.
The real pork will get larded on in the full reconstruction bill.
For Sandy, it was over $100 billion. I expect the same for TX/LA and for whichever states get hit by this oncoming hurricane.
It's the big reconstruction bill that will be the porkfest in the Senate.
