Reps. Thompson, Huffman: feds denial of fire aid is ‘a new low’
A request for supplemental disaster relief by the federal Office of Management and Budget contains no funding whatsoever for rebuilding the communities in California devastated by the recent wildfires, according to Congressmen Mike Thompson (CA-05) and Jared Huffman (CA-02).
For the Administration to not request even a single additional penny to help rebuild the communities devastated by the worst fires in California’s history is mind-boggling, they said.
“This is a new low,” Reps. Thompson and Huffman said in a joint statement released today. “Either they have forgotten about the thousands of American citizens who’ve lost everything in the California fires, or they just don’t care.”
“For weeks, Democrats and Republicans have told the Administration in specific detail what resources Californians need to begin to recover and rebuild. Today, it’s clear those requests have just been ignored. This is outrageous, unacceptable, and a dereliction of the Administration’s duty to help the people of California.
The statement continued, “In the absence of responsible leadership from the President and his Administration, we call on House leadership to throw this offensive request in the trash and work in a bipartisan manner to deliver adequate disaster relief to all Americans who’ve been impacted by the recent hurricanes and fires.”
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It is more important to give tax breaks to the Corporations and wealthiest Americans than to help fellow citizens in their hour of need. We have forgotten that we are one nation. There will not be another “Greatest Generation”!
One need only watch any news channel to realize the US is one nation only on paper. It’s more like a marriage grown stale after 234 years, where the only common interest is the mortgage and little else e.g., What sane Californian would sacrifice a son or daughter to save Alabama from invasion by a foreign power? California, the world’s 6th largest economy, might do better on its own provided it didn’t make the mistake the Confederacy made when it fired on Ft. Sumter. Heck, after secession it could cut its own trade deals with Asia, the EU and the US, become an off-shore tax haven for US corporations and be swimming in cash. 😉