New Jersey sending task force to help Harvey rescue efforts

She noted that the National Flood Insurance Program – now $24 billion in debt – is due to expire at the end of September.

The insurance program, created about 50 years ago because private insurers were unwilling to risk catastrophic flood losses, is scheduled to expire September 30. However, even the Post slyly admits that much of the Sandy relief bill was not direct relief funding and would be strung out over a long period of time – and even that some of the funding was completely unrelated to Sandy.

This climate denialism, combined with a decline in “regional cooperation”, is “a particular danger today, when the possibility-nay, probability-of future devastation from climate change, not to mention other natural occurrences, is staring us in the face”, Hiltzik concluded.

The contentious flood program went through 17 temporary extensions and four lapses during legislative disputes from 2008 to 2012.

What goes around Capitol Hill comes around Capitol Hill.

President Donald Trump said Monday he expects Congress will quickly approve funds to help Texas recover.

“I think that you’re going to see very rapid action from Congress, certainly from the president … you’re going to get your funding”, he said at a joint press conference with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto. “Sen. Cruz strongly supports this role of government, but emergency bills should not be used for non-emergency spending and that unfortunately is what made up almost 70 percent” of the Sandy relief bill.

According to Politico, adding the relief package to either the debt ceiling or a continuing resolution is on the table.

Even as Harvey’s rains continue, former Democrat Rep. Steve Israel said there is a “deep and lingering resentment by members of Congress who needed help in their districts when Sandy just ravaged their constituents”.

He was not yet in office when the Senate voted on the pared-down amendment that Cornyn supported.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., has been forced to defend his 2013 vote in recent days as Harvey wreaks havoc in his home state. A Hurricane Harvey relief bill is projected to dwarf the Superstorm Sandy aid package because of the historic scale of the catastrophic flooding in the aftermath. NY won’t abandon Texas. “1 bad turn doesn’t deserve another”, he tweeted over the weekend. “Disaster relief needs to be focused on the victims of disaster relief, and I supported that for Sandy for disaster relief there, and I support that anywhere where there was a major disaster without getting distracted by political unnecessary pork spending”.

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., promised through a spokeswoman that “we will help those affected by this awful disaster”.

Emergencies are not a time to make a fetish out of green-eyeshade budget arithmetic.

The fiscal bind also extends to the White House. In 2005, then-Indiana Republican Representative Mike Pence, now vice president, called on the floor of the House for “offsetting” money spent on Katrina relief with cutbacks elsewhere.

The fight over federal assistance came the following year.