$19.1 billion in nationwide disaster aid stalls after single House Republican objects

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/191-billion-in-nationwide-disaster-aid-stalls-in-house-after-single-republican-objects/2019/05/24/76a926ca-7e30-11e9-8ede-f4abf521ef17_story.html

$19.1 billion in nationwide disaster aid stalls after single House Republican objects
By Jeff Stein and Mike DeBonis
May 24 at 1:00 PM

A House Republican lawmaker blocked a $19.1 billion disaster aid package on Friday, delaying a bill that would send federal funding to disaster-affected areas across the country.

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Tex.) voted to block the legislation, which has the support of President Trump and passed the Senate on Thursday.

Roy said he was objecting to the bill because it would add to the country’s debt, as well as because it left out $4.4 billion in additional spending for federal operations along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The White House had initially pushed lawmakers to include the new funding in the disaster bill, but the funds were left out of a Senate compromised reached this week to move the aid package forward. Roy described the $4.4 billion as “quite modest,” and he said that without it, the legislation did “nothing to address the clear national emergency and humanitarian crisis we face at our southern border.”

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1. How can republicans always block bills but Dems almost never do it? Even when

it's a particular odious bill for the Dems?

[hedda_foil]

2. It just means they have to do a roll call vote instead of a pro forma voice vote.

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3. Hedda foil is correct. It's also a poorly written article

He didn’t “voted to block the legislation”, he didn’t vote at all, he raised the objection and there will be a roll call vote