WH seeks to cut back spending as disaster relief spending mounts
Rep. Mark Walker (N.C.), who leads the Republican Study Committee caucus, was one of the lawmakers who voted against the legislation due to the lack of offsets.{mosads}
“Hurricane aid shouldn’t be added to the debt. That’s akin to going to the Emergency Room after an injury, putting the charges on a credit card, and then pretending that the Visa bill is never going to arrive,” Walker wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.
Conservatives in recent years have called for spending cuts or offsetting emergency funds for disaster relief. If the $36.5 billion House-passed package is signed into law, it will bring the level of emergency spending in the past two months alone to more than $50 billion.
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