mick mulvaney joins us. mr. director, thanks for being with us. first on hurricane relief funding. obviously you ve already gotten it across the finish line the first down payment on harvey funding. you re looking at a big ticket. you know how much. no, and we won t know for quite some time. that s why we have broken it up into smaller pieces, the amount of money we asked for last week that congress give us on a bipartisan basis was enough to get us through basically the middle of october. the numbers can change depending upon how substantial the damage was in florida. a lot of this is guesswork. it s early on. we have enough money to buy time and learn about the damage in texas, learned about the damage in florida. it could be months before the totals are in. we will deal with this as we go. just to make sure the first things first, we are taking care of people who needed immediately. folks who are still underwater in texas, and deal with the larger issues of rebuilding the states l
economy. mick mulvaney joins us. mr. director, thanks for being with us. first on hurricane relief funding. obviously you ve already gotten it across the finish line the first down payment on harvey funding. you re looking at a big ticket. you know how much. no, and we won t know for quite some time. that s why we have broken it up into smaller pieces, the amount of money we asked for last week that congress give us on a bipartisan basis was enough to get us through basically the middle of october. the numbers can change depending upon how substantial the damage was in florida. a lot of this is guesswork. it s early on. we have enough money to buy time and learn about the damage in texas, learned about the damage in florida. it could be months before the totals are in. we will deal with this as we go. just to make sure the first things first, we are taking care of people who needed immediately. folks who are still underwater in texas, and deal with the larger issues of rebuilding the