Speaker Mike Johnson said that passing additional hurricane aid for states impacted by hurricanes Helene and Milton “can wait” until Congress is back in session after the election.

On Sunday, Johnson CBS’s “Face the Nation,” where host Margaret Brennan asked him why he thinks it’s fine to wait until November for Congress to pass more aid for Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton victims.

“Well, it can wait because, remember, the day before Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida and then went up through the states and wound up in Senator Tillis’ state of North Carolina, Congress appropriated 20 billion additional dollars to FEMA so that they would have the necessary resources to address immediate needs,” Johnson said.

Tillis was part of a bipartisan group of senators that signed a letter urging lawmakers to think about bringing Congress members back into session this month to pass disaster legislation before the year’s end.

Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock from Georgia said he does not believe Black men will show up for former President Trump in large numbers.

During CNN’s “State of the Union” with Dana Bash, Warnock said: “Black men are not going to vote for Donald Trump in any significant numbers. There will be some. We’re not a monolith.”

He was responding to a New York Times polling that placed Harris behind Biden among Black voters. Warnock alluded to the late ‘80s case of the Central Park Five, where the brutal assault of a New York jogger in Central Park led to Trump taking out full-page ads in the city’s major newspapers calling for the return of the death penalty for those responsible.

“When it was proven that the Exonerated 5, the Central Park 5, were actually innocent, Donald Trump has shown no deal of concern about what they went through, no deal, no bit of contrition about it,” Warnock said.

Good morning, US politics blog readers. There’s another busy news day ahead of us and we’ll keep up with all the developments as they happen.

Donald Trump is scheduled to hold a rally in Prescott Valley, Arizona, later today. Kamala Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, will head to a Get Out the Jewish Vote campaign event in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. He will later deliver remarks at a Girl Dads for Harris-Walz phone bank in Delaware County.

Several polls released on Sunday show Vice-President Kamala Harris in the lead or in a tight race with former president Donald Trump. An ABC News/Ipsos poll shows 50% support for Harris and 48% for Trump, while the latest national NBC News poll shows Trump and Harris are deadlocked.

Here’s what else is happening:

• Kamala Harris on Saturday released a report on her health and medical history, which found that “she possesses the physical and mental resiliency required to successfully execute the duties of the presidency” if voters elect her in November. A senior aide to Harris, 59, said the vice-president’s advisers viewed the publication of the health report and medical history as an opportunity to call attention to questions about Donald Trump’s physical fitness and mental acuity.

• Tightening poll figures have triggered nervousness and anxiety in Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign, with Donald Trump making gains in the states where it matters most as the election race enters its climactic final phase, according to The Guardian’s 10-day polling average tracker.

• Several former Trump administration officials have warned that the former president deliberately withheld disaster aid to states he deemed politically hostile to him as US president and will do so again unimpeded if he returns to the White House.