Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida mentioned Sunday that he'll vote towards any potential congressional catastrophe help for victims of Hurricane Ian if lawmakers “load it up with stuff that’s unrelated to the storm.”
“Positive. I'll struggle towards it having pork in it. That’s the important thing,” the senator informed CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union” when requested if he would vote towards any potential reduction bundle that additionally incorporates cash for different issues. “We shouldn’t have that in there as a result of it undermines the flexibility to return again and do that sooner or later.”
“I believe catastrophe reduction is one thing we shouldn’t play with. We're succesful on this nation, within the Congress, of voting for catastrophe reduction for key — after key occasions like this with out utilizing it as a automobile or a mechanism for folks to load it up with stuff that’s unrelated to the storm.
Rubio had beforehand confronted criticism for voting towards federal catastrophe help for victims of Hurricane Sandy as a result of he mentioned the reduction wasn’t narrowly tailor-made to deal with solely the storm. The senator later voted in favor of a piecemeal help bundle for victims of Sandy.
“It had been loaded up with a bunch of issues that had nothing to do with catastrophe reduction,” he informed Bash on Sunday, referring to a Hurricane Sandy help bundle he voted towards. “I might by no means put on the market that we must always go use a catastrophe reduction bundle for Florida as a technique to pay for every kind of different issues folks need across the nation.”
On Friday, Rubio and fellow Florida Sen. Rick Scott despatched a letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee requesting their “assist in growing a catastrophe supplemental to offer a lot wanted help to Florida.”
“A sturdy and well timed federal response, together with by way of supplemental packages and funding, might be required to make sure that adequate sources are supplied to rebuild essential infrastructure and public companies capability, and to help our fellow Floridians in rebuilding their lives,” the Republican lawmakers wrote.
Hurricane Ian — anticipated to be ranked the most costly storm in Florida’s historical past — made landfall Wednesday as a robust Class 4 and had weakened to a post-tropical cyclone by Saturday, raining down over elements of West Virginia and western Maryland.
At the very least 67 folks have been killed by Ian in Florida because it swallowed properties in its livid speeding waters, obliterated roadways and ripped down powerlines. 4 folks have been additionally killed in storm-related incidents in North Carolina, officers have mentioned.
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