Full list of Republicans who voted against FEMA funding before Helene hit
Full list of Republicans who voted against FEMA funding before Helene hit
Congress approved $20 billion for FEMA's disaster relief fund as Hurricane Helene was heading toward Florida.
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:
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Representative James Baird of Indiana
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Representative Troy Balderson of Ohio
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Representative Jim Banks of Indiana
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Representative Aaron Bean of Florida
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Representative Andy Biggs of Arizona
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Representative Gus Bilirakis of Florida
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Representative Dan Bishop of North Carolina
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Representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado
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Representative Mike Bost of Illinois
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Representative Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma
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Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee
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Representative Eric Burlison of Missouri
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Representative Kat Cammack of Florida
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Representative Michael Cloud of Texas
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Representative Andrew Clyde of Georgia
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Representative Mike Collins of Georgia
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Representative Eli Crane of Arizona
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Representative John Curtis of Utah
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Representative Warren Davidson of Ohio
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Representative Byron Donalds of Florida
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Representative Jeff Duncan of South Carolina
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Representative Ron Estes of Kansas
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Representative Mike Ezell of Mississippi
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Representative Randy Feenstra of Iowa
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Representative Brad Finstad of Minnesota
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Representative Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota
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Representative Russell Fry of South Carolina
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Representative Russ Fulcher of Idaho
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Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida
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Representative Tony Gonzales of Texas
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Representative Bob Good of Virginia
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Representative Lance Gooden of Texas
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Representative Paul Gosar of Arizona
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Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia
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Representative Morgan Griffith of Virginia
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Representative Michael Guest of Mississippi
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Representative Harriet Hageman of Wyoming
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Representative Andy Harris of Maryland
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Representative Clay Higgins of Louisiana
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Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio
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Representative John Joyce of Pennsylvania
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Representative Trent Kelly of Mississippi
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Representative Darin LaHood of Illinois
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Representative Laurel Lee of Florida
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Representative Debbie Lesko of Arizona
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Representative Greg Lopez of Colorado
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Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida
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Representative Morgan Lutrell of Texas
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Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina
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Representative Tracey Mann of Kansas
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Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky
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Representative Tom McClintock of California
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Representative Rich McCormick of Georgia
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Representative Mary Miller of Illinois
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Representative Max Miller of Ohio
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Representative Cory Mills of Florida
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Representative Alex Mooney of West Virginia
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Representative Barry Moore of Alabama
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Representative Nathaniel Moran of Texas
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Representative Ralph Norman of South Carolina
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Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee
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Representative Gary Palmer of Alabama
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Representative Scott Perry of Pennsylvania
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Representative Bill Posey of Florida
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Representative John Rose of Tennessee
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Representative Matt Rosendale of Montana
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Representative Chip Roy of Texas
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Representative David Schweikert of Arizona
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Representative Keith Self of Texas
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Representative Victoria Spartz of Indiana
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Representative Claudia Tenney of New York
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Representative William Timmons of South Carolina
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Representative Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey
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Representative Beth Van Duyne of Texas
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Representative Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin
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Representative Mike Waltz of Florida
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Representative Randy Weber of Texas
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Representative Daniel Webster of Florida
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Representative Bruce Westerman of Arkansas
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Representative Roger Williams of Texas
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Representative Rudy Yakym of Indiana
Senate:
- Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee
- Senator Mike Braun of Indiana
- Senator Katie Britt of Alabama
- Senator Ted Budd of North Carolina
- Senator Mike Crapo of Idaho
- Senator Deb Fischer of Nebraska
- Senator Bill Hagerty of Tennessee
- Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri
- Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin
- Senator Mike Lee of Utah
- Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas
- Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma
- Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky
- Senator Pete Ricketts of Nebraska
- Senator James Risch of Idaho
- Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri
- Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina
- Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama
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Just to be clear, only Republicans voted against this.
Inb4 “Why are they only talking about Republican no votes???”
Can’t let the libs have a win! Even at the cost of hundreds or thousands of lives.
Some of you will die, but that's a price I'm willing to pay.
Don't worry. Fema will run out of money before the end of hurricane season and Christian Nationalist Mike Johnson has refused to hold any votes giving it additional funding until after the election.
Democrats need to be pushing this out into the public consciousness hard, so when Fema does run out of money and people in dire need can't get help, they know who to blame.
Yup, just air Mike Johnson saying "I won't hold votes on this until the election is over". The ad copy writes itself: Republicans don't care how many of you or your loved ones die.
I said the same thing. Harris needs to player this on ads everywhere.
One would think the next senate/house election in an area saying, "This guy voted against disaster relief for a disaster that directly affected you" would be an absolute killer, but some of these folks would vote for Lucifer if he had a R next to his name.
Her name is R-Kamala Harris.
Instant win!
"How could I possibly vote for the DEMONcrat party?" - the qons, probably.
I‘d much rather have Lucifer in power than any republican.
Stupid sexy Lucifer, or the even hotter version the other brother sculpted?
Well all these representatives go back to their districts and then lie about it. And they say they voted for the relief but Biden denied it.
In fact, only one request has been denied in recent memory and it was by Trump.
Absolutely ridiculous that Newsweek would post this biased one-sided list. Why only list the GOP "no" votes?! Both sides!
Here's a list of all the Democrats that voted against FEMA funding:
here's a list of democrats that voted against this funding:
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FTFY (null is technically a value and we don't want to confuse people /s)
All North American congressmen? Hah! Checkmate librulz!
Part of me wishes we could simply not help these states. But there are people among them that don't deserve it.
It's more than unfair, it's wicked that the majority of people are being represented by minority voices. It's costing lives that we aren't fixing this.
Please, please please people, get more involved in your state and county and community politics so these people stop running uncontested and unexposed.
And even when it doesn't actually kill people, it's ruining people's lives and fun in ways they often will never recover from.
I still love the fact that "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" is a joke because it's obviously impossible, and republicans were just too fucking stupid to get it so they're like "lol this is our economic policy"
These idiots think FEMA is for death camps not disaster relief so in thier conspiracy ridden easily controlled minds, republicans who voted no are heroes.
sometimes I wonder how we haven't gone extinct but then I remember we've been working on it (climate change) for a long time.
I'm a Republican directly effected by this and I'm HAPPY they voted AGAINST it! This Bill that would have saved my Life ALSO allowed TRANS KIDS to Exist! And it's JOE BIDENS fault that Republicans voted against it anyways!
🤣🤣🤣
How else do you get to stir shit about fema not having funds if they are properly funded?
It makes sense. The only people killed by Helene were gays, immigrants (there were no immigrants in Eden!), and this one guy who was "curious" about being an immigrant. /s
What is absolutely absurd to me is the fact that there are votes against from Texas, Florida, and Louisiana. The three states who vastly out consume the FEMA budget annually since 2015.
Spite is their default setting.
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Why are we giving NC anything? They need to develop personnel responsibility. Also this is gods judgement on them for something. /s I am trying to replicate GOP thinking. How did I do?
there should be an organization that just puts these names on billboards around the country or something, i think that would be funny.
It happens often enough you could easily make this a thing anyway.
Now the orange supporting shit stains have Hurricane Milton on their hands.
Anyone else think there should be some kind of Nuremberg trial for these people?
8 floridiots
Fuck Florida is what our planet is saying. With the things we do, and all the things we ignore, Florida will be gone in like a hundred years. There ate people who are making things worse, and i really don't know how we will recover.
Hey all, you can go here to find out who your representatives in the House and Senate are and then just type "(person name) official contact" in to your search engine to find out how to email them and let them know what you think of their vote. I sent two angry emails and, surprisingly, one thankful one.
And now we are going to see if those same Republicans vote against FEMA funding before Milton hits and does destruction to the 'Happiest Place On Earth' in Orlando' and are going to need to be voted out a month from now (if their seat is up for election this year).
and faux snooze clip interviewing victims complaining about fema. the duh
Maybe just move people out permanently and settle them down in a location that is not earthquake, fire or flooding prone? Is there such a place in the US?
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Wikipedia about this sourceThe reason they voted against it is because alot of other things where bundled in the bill. Congress should put forth a bill for FEMA funding only so that they could help people
Not necessarily about this bill in particular but I hate the bill bundling bullshit in general. Sometimes the bill appears to be about something I care about but in the bill is a ton of irrelevant stuff that sometimes I absolutely hate. I wish this wasn't able to work like this it's deceptive on purpose
Agreed, especially because lobbyists will get shit that otherwise wouldn't pass to be bundled in the bill. One example is the infrastructure bill and all the non-infrastructure related stuff they put in there
Be more specific
What was bundled with it specifically that was bad?
I'm willing to bet the bundling of other items (If any) were relevant items
It was mainly more money for Ukraine, but now they're saying stuff about FEMA spending money on illegal migrants or something along those lines (which is not true)
Nice try. But no.
I bet that the amount of singular bills getting passed through both the house and senate that has spent money on helping common citizens is close to nil in the past decade.
There is no scenario in which what you describe is the reasoning for the bill getting voted against, especially by republicans.
You're reasoning feels like gymnastics to make republicans look good as you don't have an easy argument to make.
They bundle things into bills all the time to make the other side vote on them or look like the bad guy, by using the American citizen as hostage. I wonder why so little bills passed on helping the common man. I'm not taking the Republicans side here but it's not black and white. Everyone's reply to the concept of why the Republicans blocked it has been doubt, and it seems the "only" plausible explanation is that they're all being petty and want to blame democrats for the failed FEMA response.
wait until you figure out that literally every funding bill for everything has earmarked funding in basically every category.
It's also not uncommon to push through a large monolithic funding bill since it's simply easier than managing like 12 different pieces of legislation instead.
How can someone check what else was in this h bill? Genuinely curious.
It's hella long so you can just skim it, but the actual text is here
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2882/text
PDF version https://www.congress.gov/118/bills/hr2882/BILLS-118hr2882enr.pdf