The new request comes on top of the $12 billion that the administration sought earlier this month.
President Joe Biden has vowed repeatedly to ensure that communities hit in recent weeks by wildfires and flooding get as much federal assistance as they need to recover. | Evan Vucci/AP PhotoThe White House said Friday that it is asking Congress for an additional $4 billion in emergency disaster aid to help respond to the fallout from a string of natural disasters across the country.
“The President has been clear that we’re going to stand with communities across the Nation as they recover from disasters for as long as it takes,” a spokesperson for the Office of Management and Budget said in a statement, citing the “intensity of disaster activity” around the U.S. as triggering the extra financial need. “We urge Congress to take swift action on supplemental appropriations.”
The president visited Maui in mid-August after wildfires tore through the Hawaiian island, meeting with survivors and surveying the damage. On Saturday, Biden is slated to fly to Florida to tour areas hardest hit by Hurricane Idalia, which made landfall as a Category 3 storm earlier this week. The administration has also dispatched FEMA teams to both areas to aid with the ongoing recovery.
But keeping that pledge may rely heavily on securing more emergency money from Congress as part of a spending bill it must pass by Sept. 30 to keep the government open. FEMA has just $3.4 billion left in its disaster relief fund, Administrator Deanne Criswell said earlier this week. The agency expects to exhaust that remaining amount by the first half of September.
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