The Biden administration is asking Congress to approve an additional $4 billion to replenish the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Disaster Relief Fund, which has been taxed by a brutal stretch of extreme weather across the country this year.
The request, made Friday, is in addition to the $12 billion in emergency spending that President Biden asked Congress to provide last month. It also comes one day after Mr. Biden called on Congress to pass more relief funds for FEMA during remarks on Hurricane Idalia, which left a trail of devastation across several southern states.
Mr. Biden will travel to Florida on Saturday to survey damage from Hurricane Idalia, which was later downgraded to a tropical storm.
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