We’re all in this thing together.
Or so we like to say. But Ron DeSantis’ hypocrisy just punched a hole through that ideal.
In 2013, when Hurricane Sandy devastated New Jersey, the then-Florida congressman piously declined to support a bill providing $9.7 billion in aid to those who had seen their homes damaged or destroyed. “I sympathize with the victims of Hurricane Sandy,” he declared, but added that it would not be “fiscally responsible” to increase the debt without a decrease in spending.
Thankfully, the bill passed without his — or 67 other House Republicans’ — support. Otherwise, all those people wiped out by a freak storm would have had to try paying their bills with DeSantis’ sympathy.