Summary of House GOP Disaster Supplemental
Summary of Emergency Disaster Supplemental
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The package totals
While some funding levels are robust, this package is not the product of bipartisan negotiation and compromise.
* It fails to include critical priorities of
* Further, this package fails to waive unworkable cost-share requirements for
Had the majority worked with
Please see a section-by-section summary below.
Agriculture
The Agriculture title includes:
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Additional language included:
* Allowing USDA to issue block grants to disaster-affected areas or to provide direct assistance through the
* Making cottonseed eligible for certain farm bill programs
* Removing cap on livestock crop insurance expenses
* Expanding 5-state pilot program to address possible duplicate enrollments among SNAP beneficiaries
The Agriculture title fails to include a proposal by
Commerce, Justice, Science
The CJS title of the emergency disaster supplemental includes:
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This title fails to include priorities of
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* NOAA Coastal Resilience Grants
* National Oceans and Coastal Security Funding
* Language waiving cost-share requirement for
* Additional funding for
Defense
The Defense title of the emergency disaster supplemental includes
Included within that
Energy &
The Energy &
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The E&W title does not include a
The Financial Services & General Government title of the disaster supplemental includes:
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Homeland Security
The Homeland Security title of the emergency disaster supplemental includes:
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Authorizing language included:
* Requiring Puerto Rico to submit a recovery plan for certification by the PROMESA oversight board.
* Establishing a 90% federal cost-share for debris removal for major disasters declared in 2017 as a result of wildfires.
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This title fails to include the following priorities of the
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* Authority to allow federal disaster response personnel to receive overtime pay above the normal statutory cap.
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* Authority to extend the period of consideration for revenue loss used in the calculation of Community Disaster Loans.
Interior
The Interior title of the emergency disaster supplemental includes:
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The Interior title fails to include:
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Labor, HHS, and Education
The L-HHS-Ed title of the emergency disaster supplemental includes:
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Authorizing language included:
* Allowing temporary direct hiring authority for CDC and ASPR emergency response personnel
* Allowing 100% of disadvantaged youth workforce investment funds to be transferred to adult and dislocated worker programs. House minority opposes this provision.
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This title fails to include the following priorities of
* Federal funding for Medicaid in
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Legislative Branch
The Legislative Branch title of the emergency disaster supplemental includes:
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Authorizing language included:
* Requiring GAO to submit to
* Requires OMB to issue guidance for federal agencies to use in designing internal controls of disaster recovery spending
* Prohibits FEMA from reimbursing states or municipal governments that do not allow
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Transportation-HUD
The Transportation-HUD title of the emergency disaster supplemental includes:
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Authorizing language included:
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* Removes cap on FHWA assistance to territories for FY2018 and FY2019.
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