Despite the Republican’s gripe about the relief money adding to the deficit, he said “there’s no reason” why the bill should not have included “the quite modest $4.4 billion” White House request for Trump's southern border wall.
It took just one lawmaker to further delay billions of dollars in long-awaited disaster relief funding for victims of hurricanes, flooding and wildfires across the country. And Democrats let the Republican congressman who on Friday blocked a vote on the bipartisan agreement know they weren’t very happy.
House members left town Thursday—before the Senate had yet struck a deal on the disaster aid bill—for Congress’ recess that will last until June 3. The aid was passed with overwhelming bipartisan support that afternoon in the Senate after receiving Trump’s blessing, despite the $19 billion aid package not including billions of dollars requested by the White House for the president’s border wall.
Rep. Chip Roy listens during a House Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee hearing on confronting white supremacy at the U.S. Capitol on May 15 in Washington, DC. Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images “Countless American families hit by devastating natural disasters across the country will now be denied the relief they urgently need,” Pelosi continued in her statement. “Every House Republican needs to answer to the American people why they are standing in the way of urgently needed disaster relief for families struggling to heal and recover.”
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