New York Rep. Peter King over the weekend criticized fellow Republican and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz for opposing the billion-dollar aid package for East Coast states hammered by Sandy in 2012. “Ted Cruz & Texas cohorts voted vs NY/NJ aid after Sandy but I'll vote 4 Harvey aid,” King tweeted Saturday. Both senators complained at the time that unrelated spending items were attached to the aid package. A Cornyn spokesman noted to Bloomberg News that the senator “voted for a Sandy aid package without the unrelated spending, which included things like repairing fisheries in the Pacific." And negotiations could be complicated by the need to draft another bill to provide potentially billions in Harvey relief money.

Source: Fox News August 28, 2017 13:30 UTC