Bill Description

This amendment, offered by Rep. Mulvaney (R-SC),would provide an offset for the $17 billion in emergency funding made available to address immediate needs for victims and communities affected by Hurricane Sandy by implementing an across the board cut of 1.63% to 2013 discretionary spending.

Liberty for All's Position

This amendment would have enabled the communities impacted by Hurricane Sandy to still receive assistance but would have accounted for the unexpected costs of that help. By offsetting the costs of assistance the amendment helped ensure that we would not have to continue to borrow money to provide for our communities and encouraged restraint on behalf of Congress. As noted in our opposition to the overall relief bill, a large portion of the "emergency" spending was for multi-year appropriations that were not actually a response to a crisis situation and this amendment would have required Congress to find a way to pay for those funding requests.