Sheldon Whitehouse: “I just want your assurance that you will not be a part of or party to any Fifth Column within Social Security.”

We introduced the Disaster Relief Fairness Act in July, which would require the federal government to approve disaster aid when a state meets FEMA’s criteria for assistance.

This is a hugely important milestone but there are two big pieces of work in front of us.

We need more clarity on that, and when we have more clarity on that they’ll be back-and-forth to try to resolve those issues.

We need more clarity on that.