House Speaker Mike Johnson on Sunday would not commit to calling Congress back into session before the election
-- after President Joe Biden pressed congressional leaders about potential funding shortfalls in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.
In an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” Johnson was asked about Biden’s letter to congressional leaders on Friday requesting more money for federal disaster recovery efforts -- and after Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas warned that the department doesn’t have enough money to get through the rest of hurricane season.
In his letter, the president urged Congress to restore funding to the Small Business Administration’s disaster loan program,
which was facing potential funding shortfalls even before Hurricane Helene devastated parts of the Southeast.
The president noted that the White House requested more funding for the program as Congress prepared a short-term funding bill that passed last month to avert a government shutdown.
Pressed on whether he would call Congress back into session before the election, Johnson replied,
“We’ll be back in session immediately after the election.”
“That’s 30 days from now.
The thing about these hurricanes and disasters of this magnitude is it takes a while to calculate the actual damages, and the states are going to need some time to do that,” Johnson said
Unfortunately, thanks to our right-wing media and their obsession with Tim Tebow wannabes, we'll have Big Clock Brock all up in our TV screens and monitors all off season.
In the end, nice to see Mahomes play ice-cold killa again, and TSwift gets to blow...errrrrrrrrr, ride Kelce harder during the off-season. Plus, the ghost of 28-3 bites the Shanahans again.
@thecrawford yeah, the temptation may be to leave her in F3 for another year - and may have to anyway if this counts as only her first season.
In terms of streams: This campaign will be my monday evening (UK time) stream, with that going up on youtube on fridays. Then youtube exclusive updates between streams as and when.
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