Majority Leader Schumer Floor Remarks On The Need For Bipartisan Cooperation To Pass Crucial Disaster Aid Package

Washington, D.C. – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor  on the need for Congress to work in a bipartisan way to approve necessary disaster relief funding by the end of the year. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:

In 2024, at least twenty-four major disasters have battered communities across the United States – killing over 400 Americans and costing over $60 billion in damages. The true cost is certainly higher. These disasters, and disasters of recent years, have left the federal government’s emergency resources all but depleted.

So, for the last month, I have worked with my colleagues to try and get a comprehensive disaster aid package done before the end of the year. I believe we must try as much as possible to get it done, and we on the Democratic side have been persistent in getting as many dollars as possible to help both blue and red states affected by disaster.

I remain hopeful and determined that we can reach a deal with our Republican counterparts, but the only way we’re going to get a disaster package done is with a serious show of bipartisan cooperation.

That's how the CRs work. Disaster aid is not a Democrat or Republican issue whatsoever – Mother Nature comes for us all, as we’ve seen in every part of the country time and time again.

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