moody analytics came out with an estimate that the cost of the two storms from property loss and lost output, the two together could be between $150 billion and $200 billion. if you don t get a straight, in the coming days or weeks, if it s not a straight hurricane relief bill, are you going to vote against that hurricane funding, as well? no, i mean, that hasn t even come up yet. i don t know what we re concerned about they re likely to need more federal funding. the first bit was described as a first amount that was going to go to hurricane funding. you have to approve more. you know what i mean? every republican last week just to be clear on this, right? every republican was going to vote for hurricane relief. every republican was going to vote for raising the debt ceiling. the problem was the intellectually questionable linkage between the two and saying we have to protect the
sick. why can t we have a clean hurricane relief bill? why can t we have a clean border funding bill? why do they always have to be tied? people simply asserted the right priorities they wouldn t have to do these compromises and capitulations. brian: i know. they have so much to get done. they are trying to make people vote i think they should vote naturally. michelle, thanks so much. you bet. ainsley: thanks, michelle. 17 minutes before the top of the hour. reports say speaker ryan is on the hot seat with some of his own party. how do voters in the speaker s district feel? todd piro is live at the diner that there is he behind the donuts. is he live in wisconsin next. ainsley: she fought stage 3 breast cancer and she won. but the battle isn t over for fbn s gerri willis. she joins us now how you can fight alongside her next my wish for you is that this life
the hurricane relief bill, when it gets to the senate, is there going to be a short-term three-month debt ceiling attached, a long-term bill, nothing. a clean bill, what do democrats want to see? let s get to the bottom line here, when it comes to relief for the victims of harvey, i can tell you the democrats are solid. we re going to help these people. i believe and i ve always believed that i should be ready to step up and help victims of a natural disaster even if it isn t my own state. there are some republicans who are eating their words who voted against hurricane relief for sandy, other instances. they re going to come around and we should make that a priority. the question is whether this will be a vehicle to do something else. i m for a debt ceiling extension, i voted for them. at least i have in recent times. and i believe that we should. but it doesn t have to be a year and a half, that is clearly political, it is a decision to try to get this beyond the next election so t
return trip to texas comes as his administration is asking for nearly $8 billion in relief funds. hurricane relief bill, tops congress s packed agenda when they return on tuesday. laura sanchez is following this for us from the white house and he s joining us live now. boris, is the white house confident that congress will approve this aid package as the president and first lady have already embarked on their trip to visit with people in texas? there certainly is momentum for it, fred. the president and key members of congress pledging to provide aid for people in texas and louisiana very quickly. as you said, this aid package, nearly $8 billion, $7.85 billion to be exact. the bulk of that money is going to fema s disaster relief fund. $7.4 billion. another $400 million is going to the small business administration to help small businesses and homeowners. the house is expected to hold a vote on this aid package before
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,