Article snippet: WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is rushing to wrap up a long-overdue $19 billion disaster aid package, but only after Democrats insisted on jettisoning President Donald Trump’s $4.5 billion request to handle an unprecedented influx of migrants at the southern border. The disaster package — which has more than doubled in size since the House first addressed it last year — would deliver aid for southern states suffering from last fall’s hurricanes, Midwestern states deluged with springtime floods, and fire-ravaged rural California. The Senate is set to vote Thursday afternoon. House lawmakers have already left for the Memorial Day recess but the chamber could attempt to pass the bill by voice vote on Friday, said a spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. Several Senate Republicans said Trump has agreed to sign the bill even though funding to deal with the border crisis has been stripped out. Most of the funding would go to Trump strongholds like the Florida Panhandle, rural Georgia and North Carolina, and Iowa and Nebraska. Several military facilities would receive rebuilding funds, including Camp Lejeune in North Carolina and Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. Such measures are invariably bipartisan, but this round has bogged down. After weeks of fighting, Democrats bested Trump and won further aid to Puerto Rico, slammed by back to back hurricanes in 2017. Trump has feuded with the island’s Democratic officials and has repeatedly misstated that Puerto Rico... Link to the full article to read more