{"id":1669968,"date":"2022-10-03T10:50:14","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T14:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1669968"},"modified":"2022-10-03T10:50:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T14:50:45","slug":"florida-sen-marco-rubio-vows-to-reject-hurricane-ian-relief-bill-if-legislation-is-filled-with-pork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-sen-marco-rubio-vows-to-reject-hurricane-ian-relief-bill-if-legislation-is-filled-with-pork\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Sen. Marco Rubio Vows to Reject Hurricane Ian Relief Bill If Legislation Is Filled With \u2018Pork\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fflorida-sen-marco-rubio-vows-to-reject-hurricane-ian-relief-bill-if-legislation-is-filled-with-pork%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1669968&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Sunday vowed not to support a\u00a0federal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-relief-bill\">relief bill<\/a> aimed at aiding his state in its recovery from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-hurricane-ian\">Hurricane Ian<\/a> if it goes beyond providing disaster funding to include unrelated spending.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio made the comments in an\u00a0interview\u00a0for CNN\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j04cpeuk8JU\">State of the Union<\/a>\u201d program several days after the powerful storm made landfall.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Category 4 storm with winds of 150 mph (240 kph) has claimed the lives of more than 80 people in Florida and the Carolinas,\u00a0Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/hurricane-ravaged-florida-carolinas-face-daunting-recovery-2022-10-02\/\">reported<\/a>, although the death\u00a0toll is expected to keep rising.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,\u00a0613,386 electric customers in Florida were without power as of Monday,\u00a0according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/poweroutage.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PowerOutage.us<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio on Sunday noted that he has always supported disaster relief funding packages that are \u201cclean\u201d\u00a0but that he would not vote for any bill that is \u201cloaded up with stuff that\u2019s unrelated to the storm\u201d and \u201csmells like pork.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pork is a commonly used term to describe spending for other unrelated projects\u00a0that\u2019s placed into congressional spending legislation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will fight against it having pork in it. That\u2019s the key,\u201d the senator said, adding that\u00a0he feared that voting for such a package would\u00a0deter other lawmakers from voting for disaster relief in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe shouldn\u2019t have that in there because it undermines the ability to come back and do this in the future,\u201d he said. \u201cI think disaster relief is something we shouldn\u2019t play with. We are capable in this country, in the Congress, of voting for disaster relief for key, after key events like this, without using it as a vehicle or a mechanism for people to load it up with stuff that\u2019s unrelated to the storm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \u2018It\u2019s Not About Politics\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou will have people in the Senate, in the House that are going to vote against disaster relief because they view these disaster relief bills as ways for other people to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Sunday vowed not to support a\u00a0federal relief bill aimed at aiding his state in its recovery from\u00a0Hurricane Ian if it goes beyond providing disaster funding to include unrelated spending. Rubio made the comments in an\u00a0interview\u00a0for CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union\u201d program several days after the powerful storm made landfall. 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