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geneusutwerk · 4417 days ago · link ·
New York Times has a breakdown of the votes if anyone is curious. 67 Republicans voted against it, and as others have pointed out at least a portion of these are in districts that could easily need the same sort of relief.
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geneusutwerk · 4416 days ago · link ·
It is. I think the anger/annoyance is that when Hurricane Katrina hit they didn't demand deficit cuts, and there was broad support for the emergency appropriations.
These kind of amounts of money astound me, and I'm often left to ponder what $9.7B really does. There are so many questions left unanswered when a huge chunk of money goes towards something. I'd hope it is managed effectively and used in a way that taxpayers are proud of (or at the very least understand). My expectations are that this is certainly not the case.