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Congress must approve aid for California fire victims

Posted on 01/10/2025 6:43:57 AM PST by bill andersen

The devastating wildfires around Los Angeles have caused billions of dollars of damage and left thousands of people destitute and homeless. It is fitting and proper that congress and President Trump quickly enact legislation to help them. It will be very expensive with estimates ranging up to 200 billion dollars.

But the money has to come from somewhere. And there are a multitude of places to get it. And naturally congress will attach strings. Here is a starting list of the strings. It is by no means complete:

The senate will immediately approve all of President Trump’s cabinet nominations.

The Department of Education is immediately terminated.

All labor contracts and unions for federal employees are immediately terminated.

All restrictions to drilling on federal lands are immediately terminated.

All offshore restrictions to drilling are immediately terminated.

The Keystone Pipeline will continue unabated and be completed.

All 87,000 new irs agents are immediately terminated.

All hurricane and flood victims in the Southeast get the same aid and get it before the California fire victims get theirs.

FEMA, under the Trump Administration will solely handle the aid to there fire victims. No California state agencies will be involved.

Funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and National Public Radio is immediately terminated and their broadcasting licenses are immediately revoked.


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To: RaceBannon

Don’t forget the state of NC demanded property taxes be paid in full and ontime..

Even if your house (and land) were washed away.


61 posted on 01/10/2025 9:15:39 AM PST by cableguymn (They don't want peace they want skeletons )
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To: wildcard_redneck

All this arm twisting by leftist politicians will just leave Californian’s without insurance.


Thats the point. CA wants EVERYONE in a pool that the state runs. (So they can treat the money in said pool like the fedgov does social security)


62 posted on 01/10/2025 9:23:08 AM PST by cableguymn (They don't want peace they want skeletons )
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To: cgbg

biden said “100%” so when trump undoes it, he looks like the a-hole.


63 posted on 01/10/2025 9:24:03 AM PST by cableguymn (They don't want peace they want skeletons )
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To: cableguymn

We have to stop worrying about how stuff “looks” and start doing what needs to be done.

Republicans have been playing “nice” for decades.

That needs to end now.


64 posted on 01/10/2025 9:25:38 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: bill andersen

Put in $$$ for Palestine, Ohio and Eestern, NC.

And a few pennies for LA that they must wait a year to get.

This disaster was man / woman/ not sure which, made. Make them pay for it and demand wokeness ends.


65 posted on 01/10/2025 9:40:25 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: bill andersen

Ok. If I mess up and run everything into the ground, will Congress bail me out? (Wait...I’ll be compassionate -— the Californians who didn’t vote for this can be bailed out.)


66 posted on 01/10/2025 9:42:36 AM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: bill andersen

No- The state California should pay for California. This is not an act of nature. It is an act of negligence. Why do all taxpayers in the entire country have to pay for this. Steps should be taken to force California to pay for it all. Including reimbursing all the insurance companies. Guess what is going to happen to insurance prices across the nation in order to pay for this. They are already skyrocketing because of leftist policies. It is time to hold them accountable for their own actions. It is the only way they learn anything.


67 posted on 01/10/2025 10:21:11 AM PST by Revel
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To: bill andersen

California is a breakaway colonial outpost with their own laws and customs.

Let them deal with it.


68 posted on 01/10/2025 10:33:55 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: bill andersen

Oh sure. RAT politicians pocket all the money that comes in from the State taxpayers and the Federal government via American taxpayers, and they want the rest of the country to pay to clean up the mess they deliberately created?


69 posted on 01/10/2025 11:33:16 AM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: cgbg

And run the risk a looking like Scrooge.


70 posted on 01/10/2025 11:40:22 AM PST by vivenne (7)
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To: vivenne

At some point in life adults just stop worrying about what they “look” like—and suck it up and do the right thing anyway.


71 posted on 01/10/2025 11:42:55 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: bill andersen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPmTp9up26w

(language)


72 posted on 01/10/2025 11:45:32 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Time to throw them out of the Temple...again)
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To: bill andersen

And they were worried about insurance companies ending fire coverage. Jokes on we tax payers. we’re covering the entire bill.


73 posted on 01/10/2025 1:14:09 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: cgbg

That’s my point. It’s a conundrum that Joe purposely put Trump in. Totally evil.


74 posted on 01/10/2025 2:18:44 PM PST by vivenne (7)
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To: cableguymn

That one really got me also, I just couldn’t believe that they made that an emphasis


75 posted on 01/10/2025 4:29:42 PM PST by RaceBannon (Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for )
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