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The total cost of damage in Oklahoma is expected to be vast and yet, as the Huffington Post reports, Inhofe and Coburn will likely "seek to ensure that any additional funding for tornado disaster relief in Oklahoma be offset by cuts to federal spending elsewhere in the budget."
"That's always been his position [to offset disaster aid]," Coburn's spokesman John Hart said on Monday, noting that the Senator also supported offsets in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.
And as Coburn himself told Roll Call, he would "absolutely" demand offsets "for any federal aid that Congress provides."
Both Inhofe and Coburn have repeatedly sought to decrease disaster aid or make states pay for the aid through other forms of spending cuts. Both backed a plan to drastically cut relief to victims of Hurricane Sandy last year, and in 2011 they both opposed legislation to grant funding for FEMA as the agency quickly ran out of money--funding which Coburn labeled "unconscionable."
Think Progress put together a list of Coburn and Inhofe's attempts to undermine FEMA (even though their state heavily relies on disaster aid):
On Tuesday, President Obama declared the tornado as "a major disaster" and ordered federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts.
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The total cost of damage in Oklahoma is expected to be vast and yet, as the Huffington Post reports, Inhofe and Coburn will likely "seek to ensure that any additional funding for tornado disaster relief in Oklahoma be offset by cuts to federal spending elsewhere in the budget."
"That's always been his position [to offset disaster aid]," Coburn's spokesman John Hart said on Monday, noting that the Senator also supported offsets in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.
And as Coburn himself told Roll Call, he would "absolutely" demand offsets "for any federal aid that Congress provides."
Both Inhofe and Coburn have repeatedly sought to decrease disaster aid or make states pay for the aid through other forms of spending cuts. Both backed a plan to drastically cut relief to victims of Hurricane Sandy last year, and in 2011 they both opposed legislation to grant funding for FEMA as the agency quickly ran out of money--funding which Coburn labeled "unconscionable."
Think Progress put together a list of Coburn and Inhofe's attempts to undermine FEMA (even though their state heavily relies on disaster aid):
On Tuesday, President Obama declared the tornado as "a major disaster" and ordered federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts.
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The total cost of damage in Oklahoma is expected to be vast and yet, as the Huffington Post reports, Inhofe and Coburn will likely "seek to ensure that any additional funding for tornado disaster relief in Oklahoma be offset by cuts to federal spending elsewhere in the budget."
"That's always been his position [to offset disaster aid]," Coburn's spokesman John Hart said on Monday, noting that the Senator also supported offsets in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.
And as Coburn himself told Roll Call, he would "absolutely" demand offsets "for any federal aid that Congress provides."
Both Inhofe and Coburn have repeatedly sought to decrease disaster aid or make states pay for the aid through other forms of spending cuts. Both backed a plan to drastically cut relief to victims of Hurricane Sandy last year, and in 2011 they both opposed legislation to grant funding for FEMA as the agency quickly ran out of money--funding which Coburn labeled "unconscionable."
Think Progress put together a list of Coburn and Inhofe's attempts to undermine FEMA (even though their state heavily relies on disaster aid):
On Tuesday, President Obama declared the tornado as "a major disaster" and ordered federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts.
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