Americans for Prosperity: $60 Billion Sandy Aid Package 'A Disgrace'
A proposed $60.4 billion Hurricane Sandy disaster bill has its detractors, among then New Jersey's own Americans for Prosperity director.
A funding bill that would provide more than $60 billion in aid for the Hurricane Sandy recovery effort is currently being debated in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. The primary beneficiaries of the aid would be Connecticut, New York and New Jersey, three states that took the brunt of Sandy’s wrath and have seen damage estimates continue to rise well above President Barack Obama’s funding request. The bill has been divisive. In both the Senate and Congress, legislators are questioning the appropriations, the allocation of the funds, the total, and the need to approve the aid all at once. Despite their differences, the majority of the country’s elected leaders in Washington D.C. agree that, in some form, the victims of …
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7:40 am on Wednesday, February 27, 2013
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