Ryan: I Hope Schumer and Pelosi Don’t Play Politics with the Debt Ceiling

‘It’s disgraceful ... at this moment when we have fellow citizens in need to respond to these hurricanes so that we don’t strand them’

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RYAN: "I -- I think what -- what -- what those — what the leaders you just described proposed is -- is unworkable and it could put in jeopardy the kind of hurricane response we need to have. Look, many of us got the calls from the administration OMB who's said FEMA is moving so fast that we’re running out of money as early as Friday to Tuesday. So we’ve got to make sure that we have the -- the authority, legal authority to go out and be able to put money back into FEMA so we can respond to these hurricanes; not to mention the fact that we have to start pre-positioning for the fact that Irma is about to hit Florida. And to play politics with the debt ceiling like -- like -- like Schumer and Pelosi apparently are doing, I don’t think is a good idea."

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