The Republicans’ latest funding offer would add billions of dollars to the Senate’s existing disaster bill, which would dole out badly needed cash to states ravaged by wildfires, hurricanes and severe flooding
Leaders of both parties are making a last-gasp push to distribute the money before Memorial Day as desperation grows in a half-dozen states from Iowa to California. But they keep running into hurdles, including from the president himself.
By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time.by a push from the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Sen. Richard Shelby , as he looks to free upHouse Democrats are slated to vote Friday on their own disaster package, which includes long-delayed money for wildfire-ravaged parts of California, as well as swaths of the south — like Florida, Georgia and Alabama — that had been hit by hurricanes last summer.
Some top Republicans, including some officials at the White House, had privately pushed to combine the two emergency aid requests. But Democrats have so far resisted the idea of adding any money for the Department of Homeland Security to an already politically fraught package.
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