together to do this. dod, department of defense, national guard will be called upon to deliver some of those logistics. this is really a response and recovery effort on a massive scale that is going to be required not yust days, we just weeks or months but could be for years to come. brock long told us we heard upwards of 6 million households. but that s not people. the new number is 15 million people at this hour without power. how does the federal government help them? what comes into play here is the mutual assistance compacts that all the states have with each other. that is something that can be drawn upon for any type of disaster, whether it s a severe storm, severe snow, et cetera. you see states having these mutual system compacts that can can help send power crews from other states.
continues to descend upon texas. amassed quite the government support. over 12,000 staff mers. it s going to continue to grow. le not only are we pushing people through the dhs capacity, the detective duke proactively put into place and also the common dant s people. also calling upon other states through emergency management assistance compacts and contracts where we re asking state es support to come down and they re continuing to mass in texas. so the operation right now is very clear. we re still in life safing live sustaining mode. not only performing through the coast guard but the sustainment issue is huge, it s going to grow. we have over 230 shelters operating in texas with over 30,000 people. but i don t want to get fixated on numbers because those numbers are going to change fts next 30
over 12,000 staff members and it will continue to grow. not only are we pushing people forward through the dhs search capacity and secretary duke put into place and also the commandant s people risking their lives to state others but we re calling upon other states through emergency management assistance compacts and contracts where we re asking states to come down and they re continuing to amass in texas. the operation right now is clear. we re still in lifesaving mode. not only are we performing through our partners at the coast guard we re performing those life safety measures but the life sustainment mission is huge and will grow. we have over 230 shelters operating in texas with over 30,000 people. i don t want to get fixated on numbers. thefl they ll change in the next 30 minutes. we re providing mass care and
we now think will work. that being said, it s not as though the issue of repeal or more importantly replace has completely disappeared from the hill. there s a lot of different groups and factions trying to angle inthis vacuum here and inject their ideas for what to do next. including a bipartisan group of lawmakers who rolled out part of their plan this morning. take a look at this. stabilize the individual market by insuring that the cost-sharing reduction payments are going to be brought under the appropriations process. create a stability fund. we make reforms to the employer mandate, we repeal the medical device tax and allow for states to innovate and regional compacts. so, that s republican representative charlie dent laying out part of this plan. but, hallie, even that plan is unlikely to get any traction because the house has made it very clear, speaker ryan has made it very clear that they considered their part of this drama over for now until the
so that can t be a good thing. so why do you suppose that his followers, his base, his voters are so much for this? well, remember the campaign. it was really about anger and resentment. if you went to any of those rallies, it was about calling out the mexicans, calling out the chinese. this sort of lashing out at the world, at people who didn t look like his supporters. and this is this is more of that. it s about he is portraying himself as the kind of obama s photographic negative where, you know, obama hung out with his cosmopolitan elites. this is saying screw you to the world. sean spicer in the press briefing actually admitted that the white house does not have another plan. you have cities all over this country that are saying nope, we re going to go ahead and follow the paris accord rules. you have states that are entering compacts to follow them anyway. he can t stop them from doing that. they actually don t have a plan b.