As Hurricane Helene careened toward Florida’s Panhandle, numerous Republicans voted against extending funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
Last week, Congress approved $20 billion for FEMA’s disaster relief fund as part of a stopgap spending bill to fund the government through December 20. But the measure left out billions of dollars in requested supplemental disaster funding.
The Senate approved the measure by a 78-18 vote on September 25 after it passed the House in a 341-82 vote. Republicans supplied the no votes in both chambers.
Some of the Republicans who voted against the bill represent states that have been hard hit by Helene, including Florida Representative Matt Gaetz.
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Below are all the GOP lawmakers that voted against that bill:
House:
Representative James Baird of Indiana
Representative Troy Balderson of Ohio
Representative Jim Banks of Indiana
Representative Aaron Bean of Florida
Representative Andy Biggs of Arizona
Representative Gus Bilirakis of Florida
Representative Dan Bishop of North Carolina
Representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado
Representative Mike Bost of Illinois
Representative Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma
Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee
Representative Eric Burlison of Missouri
Representative Kat Cammack of Florida
Representative Michael Cloud of Texas
Representative Andrew Clyde of Georgia
Representative Mike Collins of Georgia
Representative Eli Crane of Arizona
Representative John Curtis of Utah
Representative Warren Davidson of Ohio
Representative Byron Donalds of Florida
Representative Jeff Duncan of South Carolina
Representative Ron Estes of Kansas
Representative Mike Ezell of Mississippi
Representative Randy Feenstra of Iowa
Representative Brad Finstad of Minnesota
Representative Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota
Representative Russell Fry of South Carolina
Representative Russ Fulcher of Idaho
Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida
Representative Tony Gonzales of Texas
Representative Bob Good of Virginia
Representative Lance Gooden of Texas
Representative Paul Gosar of Arizona
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia
Representative Morgan Griffith of Virginia
Representative Michael Guest of Mississippi
Representative Harriet Hageman of Wyoming
Representative Andy Harris of Maryland
Representative Clay Higgins of Louisiana
Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio
Representative John Joyce of Pennsylvania
Representative Trent Kelly of Mississippi
Representative Darin LaHood of Illinois
Representative Laurel Lee of Florida
Representative Debbie Lesko of Arizona
Representative Greg Lopez of Colorado
Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida
Representative Morgan Lutrell of Texas
Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina
Representative Tracey Mann of Kansas
Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky
Representative Tom McClintock of California
Representative Rich McCormick of Georgia
Representative Mary Miller of Illinois
Representative Max Miller of Ohio
Representative Cory Mills of Florida
Representative Alex Mooney of West Virginia
Representative Barry Moore of Alabama
Representative Nathaniel Moran of Texas
Representative Ralph Norman of South Carolina
Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee
Representative Gary Palmer of Alabama
Representative Scott Perry of Pennsylvania
Representative Bill Posey of Florida
Representative John Rose of Tennessee
Representative Matt Rosendale of Montana
Representative Chip Roy of Texas
Representative David Schweikert of Arizona
Representative Keith Self of Texas
Representative Victoria Spartz of Indiana
Representative Claudia Tenney of New York
Representative William Timmons of South Carolina
Representative Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey
Representative Beth Van Duyne of Texas
Representative Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin
Representative Mike Waltz of Florida
Representative Randy Weber of Texas
Representative Daniel Webster of Florida
Representative Bruce Westerman of Arkansas
Representative Roger Williams of Texas
Representative Rudy Yakym of Indiana
Senate:
As always, for these ghouls the cruelty IS the point.
What a useful comment.
To lemmy users, all Republicans are one-dimensional villainous caricatures twirling their mustaches
Can you prove they aren’t? Tell you what, for every piece of evidence you provide that shows them acting in people’s best interest, I’ll provide two pieces that show the opposite.
Imagine commenting this on a post about how the only people to vote against a bill to help disaster victims are Republicans. Lemmy users don’t have to assume anything. It’s the entire subject of the headline lol. Nice martyr complex though.
When have they proven otherwise?
I’d imagine they’ve proven otherwise many times. People aren’t one-dimensional pain-inflicting villainous caricatures. But nothing I say would convince you of that.
If you can give me a single solid event, I might be willing to believe it. But when people ask for proof and you respond “it’s happened, many people are saying it, but you wouldn’t believe me” that’s not a very convincing argument. Nor are the actions of local Republicans a convincing argument in favor of them not being mustache-twirling comic book villains. I believe this about them because this is all that they have given me reason to believe about them. If your every action is in service to evil then I label you evil. I will change my labels if and when they choose to act outside of them. I have seen precious little acting outside of that label since I’ve been old enough to pay attention to politics.
Ok, if you say “show me one single act where a Republican acted with any singular other interest besides the explicit directive of making people suffer” I’ll spend my time finding an instance. Or you can just admit that you didn’t mean what you said, and no matter what I say you won’t change your mind, and we can go about our days.
Can you find one vote which republicans voted for people?
Within the context of this bill, how else can one explain all the NO votes purely from Republicans? What about republicans whose states are devastated by Hurricane Helene?
I don’t know man, I’m sure they had reasons other than “solely to inflict suffering on other humans”. Frankly, I don’t care. Republican politicians are mostly scum. But painting every Republican as a one-dimensional caricature that subsists on the suffering of others is shortsighted, naive, hyperbolic, and dangerous.
If they werent. They wouldnt be aligning with facists.
Lol jesus christ. What are you, 13?
ignoring evidence is apparently adulthood now