The White House warned Thursday that nearly 2,000 long-term disaster recovery projects would be delayed in the event of a government shutdown, as the Sept. 30 deadline looms. The administration said in a memo that the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Disaster Relief Fund (DRF), which President Biden has supported increased funding for, would be impacted…
rooms are still available there. days inn is in a bad spot. it doesn t have the aromatherapy sessions. it seems to make sense. if fema wanted to respect the taxpayer, expedia shows plenty of air b&bs for less than $200 a night. when did fema develop this taste for the finer things in life? the administrator is complaining they don t have enough money. we are watching the fund closely. our estimates state we may have a depletion of our fund now. we will move some of our recovery projects and delay them until the next fiscal year. fema has a $25 billion budget. they are saying female is close to running out of funds?
. days inn is in a bad spot. it doesn t have the aromatherapy sessions at the four seasons offered. but logistically and financially, it seems to make sense. if fema wanted to respecmst the american taxpayer as well as the hawaiian people, expedia shows plenty of airbnbs for less than $200 a night. a now, when did fema develop this taste for the finer things in life? because fema s administrator, dean criswell, is complaining that they don t have enough money. we re watching our disaster relief fund very closely . our estimates do still stay that we may have a depletion of our fund now. i mean, this is a day by day monitoring of the situation. ilo we will start to move some of our recovery projects and delay ve some ofthem until the next fl year. whoa. fema has a $25 billion budget. now, diane, who gets paid 180 grand a year is saying fema is close to running ouayint of t funds and they ll have to delay seerations if congress doesn t
devastating tornadoes we saw earlier this year, the national atmospheric and oceanic administration says there have been more than 15 events already this year that have totalled over $1 billion in damages. and now fema is saying they need more money or they re going to have to start prioritizing and putting ahead life saving operations over recovery operations. so some places that are devastated like maui, those recovery operations could be pushed into the next year if they don t get more funding. fema administrate deanne criswell spoke about this and the urgent need for more funding over the weekend. here s what she had to say. we do anticipate we ll have a shortage of funding at our current spending levels by mid september, and so what we will do is we will continue to push. we will push projects, recovery projects into the next fiscal year, so we always have enough money to support any of the immediate life saving needs. and chris, she says that that bill is to the tune of
funding, we face a government shutdown, what are you going to do? one of the things we always take into consideration when we are doing our analysis of where we are at is incidents just like this. what we saw on maui is what we are seeing in california. we still anticipate that we will have a shortage of funding at our current spending levels by mid-september. and so what we will do is we will continue to push, we will push recovery projects into the next fiscal year, so we always have enough money to support any immediate s. take measures ensure there will be enough funding to support immediate responses to these types of severe weather offense. and the administration is working with congress on what we can do to help facilitate the recovery projects for the rest of this year but also going into next fiscal year. administrator deanne criswell , thank you for your time this morning. now we want to get to her other big story of the week, the first republican debate is this wednesd