(Bloomberg) -- The House passed a $36.5billion hurricane and wildfire relief bill Thursday that would givePuerto Rico access to $4.9 billion in low-interestTreasury loans and allow the troubled National Flood InsuranceProgram to keep paying claims.

No NFIP overhaul

The 353-69 vote sends the measure to the Senate, which isexpected to take it up after returning to Washington on Monday froma week-long recess. A number of Republicans voted against thebill because it doesn’t make spending cuts to pay for the fundingand doesn’t overhaul the flood insurance program.

The vote came on a day when President Donald Trumpthreatened in a series of tweets to pull federal aid workersout of Puerto Rico, which was devastated by Hurricane Maria threeweeks ago.

“We cannot keep FEMA, the Military & the First Responders,who have been amazing (under the most difficult circumstances) inP.R. forever!” Trump said on Twitter, citing a “total lack ofaccountability.”

House Speaker Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican, is leading abipartisan delegation to Puerto Rico on Friday to view emergencyaid efforts. The government has a responsibility to help the islandrecover from the "humanitarian crisis," the speaker told reportersat a news conference.

In the longer term, he said, "Yes, we need to make sure thatPuerto Rico can begin to stand on its own two feet."

Representative Nydia Velazquez, a New York Democrat, criticizedTrump’s tweets in a statement, saying, “I would note that thepresident did not make similar threats to Texas and Floridafollowing Hurricanes Harvey and Irma."

FEMA funds

The House measure, H.R. 2266, includes $18.7 billion for theFederal EmergencyManagement Agency (FEMA), including $4.9 billion forlow-interest loans to Puerto Rico and the U.S. VirginIslands. Puerto Rico is seeking the loans to avert an Oct. 31government shutdown due to a dwindling cash balance.

The bill provides $16 billion in debt relief to the National Flood Insurance Program, which FEMA has saidwill run out of money as early as Oct. 23 without action byCongress. If that happened, the program would be unable tomake claims payments to people whose homes have been damaged byHurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria or Nate, or other disasters.

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The federal government can’t borrow more money from the U.S.Treasury to pay those claims because Congress has limited the floodprogram’s borrowing authority to $30.4 billion, which it has nowreached.

The House bill also would provide $576.5 million for fightingwildfires following large-scale damage in northern California’swine country.

Texas, Florida

Lawmakers from Texas and Florida said they would go along with thebill even though it doesn’t provide all the funds they want torebuild their states after devastation by hurricanes Harvey andIrma. Texas Republican Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, theSenate majority whip, sought $18.7 billion in rebuilding funds.

House Appropriations Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen of New Jerseysaid this week he expects another disaster aid package in thecoming months. Last month, Congress approved an initial $15.25billion in funding.

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Two conservative groups, Heritage Action and Club for Growth,urged members to vote against the bill. "Natural disasters arepredictable — we know with 100% certainty that they will occurin the future. So fiscally responsible stewards of American taxdollars should plan accordingly," Club for Growth said in astatement Thursday.

The conservative-leaning think tank R Street has urged theSenate to raise the flood insurance program’s borrowing cap insteadof forgiving its debt. It also wants to limit future claims bybarring coverage for homes in areas that have repeatedly beenflooded and by requiring FEMA to update its flood maps.

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