Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) stated on Monday that tying the debt restrict to California help for the current lethal wildfires it has confronted is “not meant as a penalty.”
Earlier in a dialog with NewsNation’s Blake Burman on “The Hill,” Burman requested Rounds in regards to the potential of fireside help being “tied to increasing the debt limit.”
“I think it will have to be, because we simply can’t provide the assistance unless we have the ability to borrow the money to do so,” Rounds replied.
Rounds later added that “the secretary of the Treasury has already advised us that we are using extraordinary means in order to pay our bills, until such time as we increase the debt limit again.”
“It’s not meant as a penalty, or it’s not meant to slow down the delivery,” Rounds stated, speaking in regards to the fireplace help and debt restrict connection. “It simply means that we’ll have to expedite the discussion about the debt ceiling.”
The current Los Angeles-area fires have devastated the area, destroying property en masse and leaving a loss of life toll within the double digits of their wake.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) floated on Monday, tying a debt restrict improve to catastrophe help for the state.
“There’s some discussion about that, but we’ll see where it goes,” Johnson advised reporters when requested about debt restrict laws being a ridealong to a possible catastrophe help package deal.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) additionally on Monday stated that California doesn’t “deserve” funding after wildfires except they “make some changes.”
“If you go to California, you run into a lot of Republicans, a lot of good people, and I hate it for them, but they are just overwhelmed by, by these inner-city woke policies with the people that vote for them,” Tuberville stated on Newsmax’s “The Chris Salcedo Show,”
“And it … you know, I don’t mind sending them some money. But unless they show that they’re [going to] change their ways and get back to building dams and storing water, doing the — the maintenance with the brush and the trees and everything that everybody else does in the country, and they refuse to do it, they don’t deserve anything, to be honest with you, unless they show us they’re [going to] make some changes,” he added.
NewsNation is owned by Nexstar Media Group, which additionally owns The Hill.
