On Day 1- Romney Would Seek $500 Million Cut To FEMA As Part Of 5% Across-The-Board Cuts
11:31 PM – 10/28/2012
Republicans vs. FEMA
On day one of his presidency, Mitt Romney would seek a $500 million cut to FEMA as part of 5 percent across-the-board cut to discretionary spending, according to the Tweeted calculations of the Rolling Stone's Tim Dickinson. (FEMA's budget is around $10 billion.)
The pledge follows a string of Republican attacks on the disaster preparedness funds.
"Between 2010 and 2012, House Republicans forced a reduction of 43 percent in the primary grants from the Federal Emergency Management Agency that pay for disaster preparedness," reported The New York Times in August.
Last year, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) demanded that disaster relief funds for Joplin tornado victims be offset by spending cuts elsewhere. Cantor sought FEMA money for his own district a few months later in the aftermath of the Aug. 23 East Coast earthquake.
- Lynne Peeples
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