Posted on 08/08/2020 7:16:57 PM PDT by 11th_VA
U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today introduced legislation to eliminate the cost-share payments required of states and communities included in federal disaster declarations in 2020.
The Local Community Emergency Relief Act of 2020 is the second Senate proposal offered this week to mitigate coronavirus-related financial burdens affecting states and cities. Not limited to the COVID-19 emergency declaration, the bill would require the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide a 100 percent cost share for all federal emergency declarations and major disaster declarations during calendar year 2020.
“Cities and states are incurring ongoing revenue losses related to the COVID-19 emergency, and the federal government should utilize available tools and resources to ease that burden. This is especially the case for areas hit by disasters. Funding to meet the FEMA cost share requirements should instead be available for local front line work to overcome the pandemic,” said Hyde-Smith, who serves on the Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee.
Hyde-Smith introduced the bill with U.S. Senators Robert Menendez (R-N.J.), Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.), and Gary Peters (D-Mich.).
In general, FEMA disaster assistance requires a 75 percent cost-share commitment from the federal government with 25 percent provided from nonfederal sources. This legislation would follow earlier precedents to increase the federal burden beyond 75 percent to ease the burden on disaster-hit cities, counties, and states—Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Hurricane Sandy in 2012, and significant Louisiana floods in 2016...
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“Menendez [R]”???????
I did not know there was a GOP senator from NJ :)
I was wondering if anyone would catch that ...
Who knew?
Republicans flying with J Epstein to Maxwell Helicopter Island?
The CDC estimated that 60 million in the US carried the virus by December of same year.
Obama stepped up and resolve the escalation of reported infections by not allowing any more official recording of such.
The Health Emergency was thus over by January of 2010.
Dey don’t want to pay were they play.
“I guess the federal government is immune to suffering ongoing revenue losses due to COVID-19.
The losses are happening everywhere, at every level. Somebody is not thinking things through.”
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2020 = The Year of THE PLUNDER!
I imagine they figure the federal government is allowed to create money from nothing while the states aren’t.
But this seems to be part of a larger compromise whereby the unemployment boost will be coupled with more aid to the states, but not the other parts of the intentionally ridiculous laundry list of demands from Nancy and Chuck.
I’m still confused over whot port of the Constitution even grants FedGov the pomer to do this.. Any FEMA funding at all is unConstitutional.
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