Sheldon Whitehouse: “I think that the attorney general has an obligation to follow the direction of the president of the United States when…”

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.

If we can pass this bill, we will flood the grid with clean, affordable energy and make data centers start paying their fair share.

Most of the dealbreaker humps we’re over, but now it’s refining the language, taking raw agreements into legislative texts and figuring out what schedule for voting succeeds.

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.