positive. and they ve been doing a pretty good job. except for the epa according to the associated press not being on the ground while you have superfund sites which are in danger as you know so well, we had the explosion yesterday in cross by of one of those pet row chemical locations. i hear you. but i think ultimately these are things that we re going to talk about in a few weeks, maybe even a few months looking back to see if there were mistakes made. i know that democrats and republicans in congress will have over site hearings and they ll look at every dollar that was spent and everything done immediately in response to this crisis to see if it was done correctly, more so like the response to hurricane katrina, which was not done well or it was more so like sandy, which was done a little bit better. i mean, i think you will see congress take a hard look at that. but ultimately there may be problems with funding a lot of these items if congress does what they can t help th
to show people in texas and louisiana that they want to help them. congressional leaders are talking about approving that first wave as early as next week right when they get back from the august recess. the question is what happens next. i mean, you mentioned that initial $8 billion could be less than 10% of what is needed in total. we ve seen figures up to $100 billion. and that s roughly what katrina cost. so the question is what comes next. some of the stuff has to happen in the next few weeks. congress needs to reauthorize the national flood insurance program which is a federal program that plays a critical role in flood recovery. that s one of the many programs that expiers on september 30th. you ve got the debt limit. we ve been talking about how harvey is speeding up the deadline for the debt limit. that s going to be hit quicker because of all in spending. so there s a lot of stuff today. and while big picture by and large you re going to see bipartisan support for doing somet
tend to load them up. they ll toned use something like this hurricane relief bill or i m sorry, super storm relief bill to basically, you know, load it up with unrelated items. and we did see that with the sandy bill. we saw $2 million for the smith seasonian, massive amounts of money for community block grant programs, community development block grant programs. and that may become a problem if congress can t resist the idea of adding unrelated items to this bill. also the debt limit, could be a huge problem if they try and marry the debt limit to a relief bill package. is that the danger really more for democrats as a potentially remember super storm sandy and what republicans like crews had to famously done ask rejected that assistance in. well, so far the people who were so critical of ted cruz and other people who voted against the sandy package, they ve certainly made a lot of noise saying we remember what you did,
washington, d.c. daniel, so as we look at that number, if it does hit 200 billion, does that make it difficult for president trump to work with this republican congress as we look at the debt limit which is impending? yeah. treasury secretary steven mnuchin said on cnbc a few days ago that all of this money that they have to spend on harvey relief, that makes the debt limit deadline come quicker. and so that deadline is september 29th, but every time they spend, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars a day on harvey relief, that means trump has to pressure the republican congress to really, you know, raise the debt ceiling in a timely manner, because, you know, soon the clock will stop. and you don t want the u.s. government to default, especially when you have, you know, thousands, hundreds of thousands of harvey victims who are counting on goth help.
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