“We are writing you now to alert you to the need for Congress to provide emergency supplemental appropriations to address Hurricane Ida and the storms from last year, as was done following Hurricane Katrina,” they added. Further, Hurricane Ida is not the only disaster to strike Louisiana in the past year,” the Louisiana lawmakers wrote to Biden on Thursday.
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“The full extent of Louisiana’s damages have not yet been determined and will likely not be fully known until after immediate matters of public safety are addressed. Indeed, Louisiana’s entire eight-member delegation - seven Republicans and one Democrat - wasted no time in pressing President Biden for a bump in emergency funding for Ida. is also grappling with historic wildfires in the West and crippling draughts across much of the Midwest. The Biden administration is sitting on enough emergency funding to cover the “immediate” aftermath of a recent scourge of natural disasters, including the path of destruction left by Hurricane Ida, sources said Thursday.īut while the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has sufficient funds to address the country’s most pressing disaster needs, Congress could be forced to add to the agency’s coffers in the coming weeks and months as the damage costs become more clear.
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