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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[+] [S] 188 points 2 years ago (3 children)
  • [–] 150 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Just to be clear, only Republicans voted against this.

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

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  • [–] 63 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    Yup, just air Mike Johnson saying "I won't hold votes on this until the election is over". The ad copy writes itself: Republicans don't care how many of you or your loved ones die.

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  • [–] 61 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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    [–] 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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:

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    [–] 36 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)
  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    These idiots think FEMA is for death camps not disaster relief so in thier conspiracy ridden easily controlled minds, republicans who voted no are heroes.

    sometimes I wonder how we haven't gone extinct but then I remember we've been working on it (climate change) for a long time.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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!

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    [–] 12 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    It makes sense. The only people killed by Helene were gays, immigrants (there were no immigrants in Eden!), and this one guy who was "curious" about being an immigrant. /s

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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    [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Why are we giving NC anything? They need to develop personnel responsibility. Also this is gods judgement on them for something. /s I am trying to replicate GOP thinking. How did I do?

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  • 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.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Now the orange supporting shit stains have Hurricane Milton on their hands.

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