Good. Then we agree. The Sandy relief was not full of pork.
24 billion dollars of the allocated funds weren’t expected to be spent until 2016 or after.
The hurricane, for reference, was in 2012. According to CBO, nearly 4 billion of the spending in that bill didn’t even pretend to be for emergencies: 3.459 billion was actually designated as non-emergency spending.
The bill itself is here:
https://www.congress.gov/113/plaws/publ2/PLAW-113publ2.pdf
Here's the CBO finding:
https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/summarydrappropact2013-hr152-passedhouse00.pdf
Here are some things you will find if you read all of the above (you won't), including specific spending in the Sandy relief bill that has nothing to do with emergency needs or disaster relief:
16,000,000,000 dollars for Community Development Block Grants (11 billion higher than HUD was requesting at the time)
600,000,000 for State and Tribal Assistance Grants under the EPA
348,000,000 for “construction” for the National Park Service
100,000,000 for Head Start
50,000,000 for the Historic Preservation Fund at the NPS
45,000,000 for upgrades to NOAA aircraft
22,000,000 for upgrading NOAA weather equipment
50,000,000 for “construction” for Fish and Wildlife Services
24,000,000 for the Defense Working Capital Fund
10,000,000 to Small Business Administration to plus up grants to organizations seeking to participate in disaster relief
4,400,000 for “capital improvement” to the Forestry Service
3,000,000 for oil spill research
2,000,000 for the Smithsonian’s famously leaky roofs.
1,000,000 for new cars for the DEA.
1,000,000 to the Legal Services Corporation.
http://thefederalist.com/2017/08/31/sandy-relief-bill-chock-full-pork/
Pork. The Sandy relief bill was full of it.
Althea is full of shit.
