WASHINGTON ― Texas Republicans, long accustomed to bashing the federal government, are already changing their tune now that Hurricane Harvey has devastated parts of their state. At this point, no Texas Republican has declared any sort of condition for their support of an emergency aid package. But Texas Republicans latched onto the notion that the Sandy relief package was full of wasteful spending. “The problem with that particular bill,” Cruz said of the Sandy package on MSNBC, “is it became a $50 billion bill that was filled with unrelated pork. Overall, 23 of the 24 Texas Republicans then in the House voted against the Sandy package.

Source: Huffington Post August 28, 2017 21:49 UTC