Speaker Mike Johnson shelp that passing includeitional hurricane help for states impacted by hurricanes Helene and Milton “can paemploy” until Congress is back in session after the election.
On Sunday, Johnson CBS’s “Face the Nation,” where structure Margaret Brennan asked him why he leanks it’s fine to paemploy until November for Congress to pass more help for Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton victims.
“Well, it can paemploy because, recall, the day before Hurricane Helene made landdrop in Florida and then went up thcimpolite the states and wound up in Senator Tillis’ state of North Carolina, Congress appropriated 20 billion includeitional dollars to FEMA so that they would have the essential resources to includeress prompt needs,” Johnson shelp.
Tillis was part of a bipartisan group of senators that signed a letter urging laworiginaters to leank about transporting Congress members back into session this month to pass calamity legislation before the year’s finish.
Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock from Georgia shelp he does not apshow Bdeficiency men will show up for createer Plivent Trump in big numbers.
During CNN’s “State of the Union” with Dana Bash, Warnock shelp: “Bdeficiency men are not going to vote for Donald Trump in any startant numbers. There will be some. We’re not a monolith.”
He was reacting to a New York Times polling that placed Harris behind Biden among Bdeficiency voters. Warnock alluded to the tardy ‘80s case of the Central Park Five, where the brutal aggression of a New York jogger in Central Park led to Trump taking out brimming-page ads in the city’s startant novelspapers calling for the return of the death penalty for those reliable.
“When it was shown that the Exonerated 5, the Central Park 5, were actuassociate bfrailless, Donald Trump has shown no deal of trouble about what they went thcimpolite, no deal, no bit of contrition about it,” Warnock shelp.
Good morning, US politics blog readers. There’s another busy novels day ahead of us and we’ll upgrasp up with all the broadenments as they happen.
Donald Trump is scheduled to hageder a rassociate in Prescott Valley, Arizona, tardyr today. Kamala Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, will head to a Get Out the Jewant Vote campaign event in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. He will tardyr deinhabitr relabels at a Girl Dads for Harris-Walz phone bank in Delconscious County.
Several polls freed on Sunday show Vice-Plivent Kamala Harris in the direct or in a firm race with createer plivent Donald Trump. An ABC News/Ipsos poll shows 50% aid for Harris and 48% for Trump, while the tardyst national NBC News poll shows Trump and Harris are deadlocked.
Here’s what else is happening:
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Kamala Harris on Saturday freed a alert on her health and medical history, which set up that “she havees the physical and mental resiliency needd to successbrimmingy carry out the duties of the plivency” if voters elect her in November. A ageder helpe to Harris, 59, shelp the vice-plivent’s proposers watched the accessibleation of the health alert and medical history as an opportunity to call attention to asks about Donald Trump’s physical fitness and mental acuity.
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Tightening poll figures have triggered worriedness and anxiety in Kamala Harris’s plivential campaign, with Donald Trump making obtains in the states where it matters most as the election race accesss its climactic final phase, according to The Guardian’s 10-day polling mediocre tracker.
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Several createer Trump administration officials have alerted that the createer plivent defreely withheld calamity help to states he deemed politicassociate unfrifinishly to him as US plivent and will do so aobtain unimpeded if he returns to the White House.
