amount of fema funding in this short-term spending bill. fema announced today that it s able to basically stretch the funds that they have in this federal disaster relief fund which is helping recovery efforts for all the natural disasters the country has been facing. they re able to stretch the funds to make it through the end of this week, which is a different estimate, which is a better picture than they ve been painting previously, that they felt the coffers were going to run dry early this week. by doing that, it s key because the end of this week is the end of the fiscal year which really essentially takes the big obstacle that was holding up agreement off of the table. it makes it a moot point. and that is because the fight was over federal disaster relief in just the end of the fiscal year 11 which, as we know, is just the next few days. democrats and republicans were fighting over whether that bit of fema funding should be paid for or should not be. republicans want
federal disaster relief fund which is helping recovery efforts for all the natural disasters the country has been facing. they re able to stretch the funds to make it through the end of this week, which is a different estimate, which is a better picture than they ve been painting previously, that they felt the coffers were going to run dry early this week. by doing that, it s key because the end of this week is the end of the fiscal year which really essentially takes the big obstacle that was holding up agreement off of the table. it makes it a moot point. and that is because the fight was over federal disaster relief in just the end of the fiscal year 11 which, as we know, is just the next few days. democrats and republicans were fighting over whether that bit of fema funding should be paid for or should not be. republicans wanted it paid for, democrats didn t. that issue is taken off the table, as we see, the senate was able to move forward in a 79-12 vote to push through
efforts for all the natural disasters the country has been facing. they re able to stretch the funds to make it through the end of this week, which is a different estimate, which is a better picture than they ve been painting previously, that they felt the coffers were going to run dry early this week. by doing that, it s key because the end of this week is the end of the fiscal year which really essentially takes the big obstacle that was holding up agreement off of the table. it makes it a moot point. and that is because the fight was over federal disaster relief in just the end of the fiscal year 11 which, as we know, is just the next few days. democrats and republicans were fighting over whether that bit of fema funding should be paid for or should not be. republicans wanted it paid for, democrats didn t. that issue is taken off the table, as we see, the senate was able to move forward in a 79-12 vote to push through this clean short-term extension, push it through and p
able to basically stretch the funds that they have in this federal disaster relief fund which is helping recovery efforts for all the natural disasters the country has been facing. they re able to stretch the funds to make it through the end of this week, which is a different estimate, which is a better picture than they ve been painting previously, that they felt the coffers were going to run dry early this week. by doing that, it s key because the end of this week is the end of the fiscal year which really essentially takes the big obstacle that was holding up agreement off of the table. it makes it a moot point. and that is because the fight was over federal disaster relief in just the end of the fiscal year 11 which, as we know, is just the next few days. democrats and republicans were fighting over whether that bit of fema funding should be paid for or should not be. republicans wanted it paid for, democrats didn t. that issue is taken off the table, as we see, the sena