The White House has requested $16 billion to shore up the federal government’s disaster fund.
“Every American rightly expects FEMA to show up when they are needed to help in a disaster,” President Biden said Saturday in Live Oak, Fla. | Julio Cortez/AP PhotoSpeaking from one of Florida’s regions hardest hit by Hurricane Idalia, President Joe Biden called on Congress to quickly boost FEMA’s disaster fund budget that a series of natural disasters across the country has depleted.
FEMA currently has around $3.4 billion left in its emergency disaster fund, and its dwindling balance isits usage to life-threatening emergencies. That stipulation limits the agency from helping bankroll projects that aim to rebuild infrastructure that disasters have damaged in recent years. FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell, who has become a face of the Biden administration’s response to natural disasters, has also pressed for Congress to boost funding.
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