A Whopping 175 House Republicans Voted Against FEMA Funding in 2021

114 are them up for re-election right now and have Democratic challengers. We've got the full list.

Written for MeidasTouch by J.D. Wolf

As MAGA Republicans continue to politicize the Biden Administration's efforts to help Hurricane Helene victims, they should know that a whopping 175 House Republicans voted to defund FEMA in 2021. FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, assists states, counties, and individuals after federal disasters.

MeidasTouch earlier reported on the 35 Republican Senators that voted against it.

The Extending Government Funding and Delivering Emergency Assistance Act (H.R. 5305) was passed in 2021, and signed into law by President Biden. The bill allocated funds for FEMA after several natural disasters depleted their funds. All Republicans who voted on the bill voted against it, despite many of them representing states that experience a regular occurrence of natural disasters such as floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, and wildfires.

FEMA showing the work of "Urban Search & Rescue teams"

The bill also extended the National Flood Insurance Program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, and a provision that made it easier for students to get school lunches. Voting against this bill meant voting against FEMA funding, flood insurance, needy families, and school lunches.

Voting against that bill in 2021 was pretty awful. Here is the full list of every House Republican who voted against FEMA funding in 2021:

A list of the 175 Republicans who voted to defund FEMA in 2021

House members are up for election every 2 years, so some of these members have retired or have been defeated previously. Republicans Don Bacon of Nebraska, Michelle Steel and Mike Garcia of California, David Schweikert of Arizona, and Barry Moore of Alabama who voted to defund FEMA are in vulnerable "Biden districts," districts Joe Biden won in 2020.

Virginia Foxx who voted to defund FEMA in 2021, said she is making sure "western North Carolina is not forgotten"

People need to know that some of the very politicians who they vote for are voting against the emergency aid they would need in the unfortunate case of a disaster.

MeidasTouch has compiled a list of the Republicans that are up for re-election in November and who have a Democratic challenger, and also voted against the bill for FEMA funding, needy families, flood insurance, and school lunches in 2021:

Alabama:

• Barry Moore

• Gary Palmer

Arizona:

• Andy Biggs

• Paul Gosar

• David Schweikert

Arkansas:

• Rick Crawford

• French Hill

• Bruce Westerman

• Steve Womack

California:

• Ken Calvert

• Mike Garcia

• Darrell Issa

• Tom McClintock

• Michelle Steel

Colorado:

• Lauren Boebert

Florida:

• Gus Bilirakis

• Vern Buchanan

• Kat Cammack

• Byron Donalds

• Neal Dunn

• Matt Gaetz

• Brian Mast

• John Rutherford

• Greg Steube

• Michael Waltz

• Daniel Webster

Georgia:

• Rick Allen

• Buddy Carter

• Andrew Clyde

• Marjorie Taylor Greene

• Barry Loudermilk

• Austin Scott

Idaho:

• Russ Fulcher

Illinois:

• Mike Bost

Indiana:

• Jim Baird

• Victoria Spartz

Iowa:

• Randy Feenstra

• Ashley Hinson

• Mariannette Miller-Meeks

Kansas:

• Ron Estes

• Tracey Mann

Kentucky:

• Andy Barr

• James Comer

• Brett Guthrie

Lousiana:

• Steve Scalise

Maryland:

• Andy Harris

Michigan:

• Jack Bergman

• Bill Huizenga

• Lisa McClain

• John Moolenaar

• Tim Walberg

Minnesota:

• Tom Emmer

• Michelle Fishchback

• Pete Stauber

Mississippi:

• Trent Kelly

Missouri:

• Sam Graves

• Jason Smith

• Ann Wagner

Nebraska:

• Don Bacon

• Adrian Smith

New Jersey:

• Jeff Van Drew

New York:

• Elise Stefanik

• Claudia Tenney

North Carolina:

• Virginia Foxx

• Richard Hudson

• Greg Murphy

• David Rouzer

Ohio:

• Troy Balderson

• Warren Davidson

• Jim Jordan

• David Joyce

• Bob Latta

Oklahoma:

• Kevin Hern

Oregon:

• Cliff Bentz

Pennsylvania:

• John Joyce

• Mike Kelly

• Dan Meuser

• Scott Perry

• Guy Reschenthaler

• Lloyd Smucker

South Carolina:

• Nancy Mace

• Ralph Norman

• William Timmons

• Joe Wilson

South Dakota:

• Dusty Johnson

Tennessee:

• Tim Burchett

• Chuck Fleischmann

• Mark Green

• Diana Harshbarger

• David Kustoff

• John Rose

Texas:

• Joey Arrington

• Brian Babin

• John Carter

• Michael Cloud

• Dan Crenshaw

• Jake Ellzey

• Pat Fallon

• Lance Gooden

• Michael McCaul

• Troy Nehls

• Chip Roy

• Pete Sessions

• Beth Van Duyne

• Randy Weber

Utah:

• Burgess Owens

Virginia:

• Ben Cline

• Morgan Griffith

• Ron Wittman

West Virginia:

• Carol Miller

Wisconsin:

• Scott Fitzgerald

• Glenn Grothman

• Bryan Steil

• Tom Tiffany