Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) said House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) would cram Democratic spending into a stopgap spending bill and cut into “Big Pharma.” He said that while he is threatening President-elect Donald Trump's policies, he is doing nothing to help poisoned Americans. Due to government nuclear radiation.
“It's hard to believe that Mike Johnson would threaten President Trump's policies by agreeing to all Democratic spending and then dumping it into President Trump's lap in March,” the Missouri senator said in a written statement to Breitbart News. It's incomprehensible.”
“This bill is packed with payoffs for big pharmaceutical companies and pay increases for members of Congress, but it does nothing for the health of Americans contaminated by their own government's nuclear radiation. America is the last. “This is a slap in the face to all the victims of nuclear waste contamination by my state and government. Mike Johnson needs to explain himself.”
Holly personally blamed Prime Minister Johnson accused him of reneging on a “bipartisan, bicameral” agreement to reauthorize the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) program in a stopgap spending bill. The Missouri senator co-sponsored the RECA expansion bill, which passed the Senate by a 2-1 margin this spring.
RECA has long provided compensation to Americans diagnosed with certain cancers if they were exposed to nuclear radiation near land-based nuclear test sites.
This includes Missouri, KSDK reported:
Missourians' exposure to radioactive waste resulted from uranium processing in St. Louis for the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bomb during World War II.
The existence of radioactive contamination in the St. Louis suburbs has been known for years, but a 2023 investigation by The Independent, Muckrock, and The Associated Press revealed that the federal government and waste companies had not publicly disclosed much. It became clear that he had been aware of the threat to the people for some time. residents.
Instead of reauthorizing RECA, a stopgap spending bill would be:
- Provides subsidies to the State Department's conservative censorship slush fund
- Give lawmakers a raise while Americans suffer from inflation
- Allowing Lawmakers to Opt Out of Obamacare
- impede or impede an investigation into the House of Representatives;
State Sen. Showmey isn't the only lawmaker outraged by the removal of RECA from the spending bill.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) said he would work with Utah's entire Republican and Democratic delegation to reach a compromise to help Americans “hurt by government nuclear testing, mining, and waste storage.” said.
Lee wrote on Tuesday:
Just today, Speaker Johnson said the continuing resolution must include disaster relief for families still suffering from the effects of Hurricanes Helen and Milton. It's a legitimate concern. But now we are being told that this Bill is full of handouts from the Unionist Party. To the swamp There is no room to compensate people suffering from radiation exposure and other illnesses *caused by our own government*. no way.
Lee added, “Why are the victims of their own government's nuclear tests being relegated to the back seat by the Unification Party?” and the swamp? ”
Sean Moran is a policy reporter at Breitbart News. Follow him on X @SeanMoran3.
