HOUSE REPUBLICAN SCUMBAGS ARE AT IT AGAIN WITH CALIFORNIA - UPDATED

House Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson said Monday he personally believes that conditions should be placed on California wildfire aid, telling CNN, “It appears to us that state and local leaders were derelict in their duties in many respects.”

Johnson’s comments are a sign there could be a big fight in Congress in getting the much-needed aid approved.

“I think that there should probably be conditions on that aid. That’s my personal view. We’ll see what the consensus is. I haven’t had a chance to socialize that with any of the members over the weekend, because we’ve all been very busy. But it will be part of the discussion for sure,” Johnson said walking out of his office toward the House floor.

Johnson said there needs to be a “serious conversation” about any potential aid without any conditions, given “water resource mismanagement, forest management mistakes and all sorts of problems.” (Fact check: “water resource mismanagement” and “forest management mistakes” are not the problem, though they occupy the fantasies of the mini-minds of MAGA after ConvictedFelon34 once again demonstrated his constant determination to be a willfully ill-informed ignoramus and lay the blame for the fires on these non-existent problems over the weekend.)

Congress typically approves federal aid to rebuild after natural disasters without placing conditions, and it is usually approved with bipartisan support.

Johnson also acknowledged there is “some discussion” about tying a debt-limit increase to the aid, adding, “We’ll see where it goes.”

UPDATE

Talk of linking an increase in the debt ceiling to a disaster relief bill for California is facing pushback from both conservatives and Democrats in Congress as GOP leadership weighs the most viable path forward to avoid defaulting on the national debt.

The idea came up with lawmakers during a trip to Mar-a-Lago over the weekend, and House Speaker Mike Johnson confirmed to reporters on Monday “there has been some discussion” about tying the two pressing issues together.

But while some lawmakers believe it could incentivize members on both sides of the aisle to support the potential legislation, the idea is already receiving some resistance.

“No, we support the debt ceiling in the first reconciliation,” House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris, who just returned from a meeting with members of his caucus and President-elect Donald Trump at the Florida resort, told the Daily Beast on Monday.

And other conservatives have been skeptical of providing federal funds for California at all, with Republican Rep. Warren Davidson of Ohio telling Fox Business on Saturday: “I mean, we support the people that are plagued by disaster, but we have to put pressure on the California government to change course here.”

Every last one of these worthless mothefuckers needs to have their head introduced to a baseball bat. Repeatedly.