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Republicans, Dems Point Fingers Over Disaster Aid

Thu Oct 10, 2024 AT 10:09 AM EDT

Federal disaster aid is becoming a political football, with both parties trading accusations over the failure to pass more disaster relief as part of a government funding deal last month amid back-to-back hurricanes.

Some Republican lawmakers are accusing the Biden-Harris administration of dragging their feet on providing disaster relief funding to hard-hit areas in Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina. Democrats maintain they wanted more disaster relief funding in the continuing resolution passed last month.

The bottom line is that senior administration officials and congressional leaders, for now, think that the $20 billion in rapid-spending authority authorized by Congress last month should be enough to fund federal disaster relief operations until lawmakers reconvene in Washington after the election. Read More Here

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