WASHINGTON (AP) — Presidential candidate Ted Cruz of Texas and other Republican senators are holding up bipartisan legislation to address the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.
Lead-contaminated pipes have resulted in an ongoing public health emergency in Flint. Senators reached a tentative deal Wednesday for a $220 million package to fix and replace the city’s lead-contaminated pipes, make other infrastructure improvements and bolster lead-prevention programs nationwide.
A spokeswoman for Republican Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma, a main architect of theFlint deal, said lawmakers are “genuinely trying to work through” concerns raised by Cruzand other senators. Lawmakers hope to vote on the bill as early as next week.
A Cruz spokesman says staffers “are simply reviewing the bill right now,” noting that the proposal only emerged on Wednesday.
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These guys are scummier than Flint tap water. Not to mention being “all heart.”
If Trump hadn’t already sewed up the GOPnom, this would do it. The Donald’s gonna jam Cruzbio so high so hard up on their cold dead colons, they’ll be incontinent thru this year and unable to procreate for a decade.
Go DT Go: SLAM those Cubano crackers!
Oh man, if you’re to the insane clown right of Jim Inhofe, holy denialist horsepoop, you are REALLY out there.
And these people flaunt their faux christianity! They are manipulative, hypocritical power seekers. Barely human.