John Bel Edwards: “In fact, to comment on that, I thought one of the shortfallings of the Republican tax bill last year, that the American…”

“In fact, to comment on that, I thought one of the shortfallings of the Republican tax bill last year, that the American people so overwhelmingly rejected, was that it assumed there would be no national emergency over 10 years. I cannot recall in a 10-year period where we have gone without having a tornado, without having a drought for our farmers and ranchers. In fact, within days before the ink was dry on passing that legislation through the House, the very same people who said there would not be emergencies for 10 years, voted in favor of expending, I think, $10 billion to $15 billion, perhaps more in emergency spending just for that one year. And yet their assumption assumed there would be no emergency spending over 10 years.”