Today is quite a news day. First the articles about how well FEMA is doing and now an article that talks about the federal government being willing to spend big bucks after H. Harvey.

See: Hurricane Harvey Shifts Political Winds in Washington

In swamping large swaths of Texas and Louisiana, Hurricane Harvey also forged a new reality for President Trump and the Republicans governing Washington.

Gone are the confrontational talk of a government shutdown and the brinkmanship over the debt limit. Instead, both Mr. Trump and his putative allies in Congress — many of them professed fiscal hawks — are promising an outpouring of federal aid to begin a recovery and rebuilding effort that will last for years and require tens of billions of dollars, if not substantially more, from Washington.