Screw You Hurrican Helene Victims
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Thistle
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Posted 3:55 pm, 05/29/2025
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DB Bring it !!!!!
Most if us in the area live in a effected county!
Donald and his Administration is not exactly championing the rebuild of that part of Appalachia, where 95 people died and about 185,000 homes were damaged or destroyed in North Carolina alone. In fact, he's scaling back federal help available for that region and telling the states to take bigger pieces of the financial burden for future storms, just as hurricane season gets underway.
Given the chance to take extraordinary steps to continue full government funding as BIDEN DID, Trump is declining, breaking with how his predecessors handled major crises.
In North Carolina alone, the price tag to recover from Helene is expected to be around $60 billion; Gov. Josh Stein's budget proposal in March called for total state spending on all programs to be almost $34 billion, meaning folks expected Washington to carry much of the recovery.
But Donald wants to shift the burden back to Governors. The shortfall is especially worrying as hurricane season starts this weekend with most experts-including those inside the Federal Emergency Management Agency-warning that the feds are nowhere close to being ready. It looks like there will be about $8 billion in disaster costs that are not funded by the time the new federal budget starts in October, and the White House seems fine letting that check fall beyond the Beltway. The difference here is CLEAR given a chance to keep the cash that Biden had sent the State flowing, Donald has decided to throttle it back. Stein estimates the scaling back will cost the state an extra $200 million in federal dollars to clear debris and take emergency measures to safeguard surviving infrastructure.
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Tabs
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Posted 8:57 am, 05/29/2025
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I live in an affected county. I also pay NC state taxes in addition to federal taxes. 90 percent funds is what is customary for FEMA to pay and they are continuing to pay that amount, I have no problem with 10 percent coming from NC funds since the 100 percentage cleanup reimbursement had an end date they we have now reached.
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Thistle
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Posted 8:25 am, 05/29/2025
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Hey JAKEOFF your a little behind on whats just happened! Gov Stein said this on April 25, 2025
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BigSal
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Posted 5:52 am, 05/29/2025
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He done got the good off the folks.
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Jack Schitt
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Posted 10:53 pm, 05/28/2025
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Governor Josh Stein announced today that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has approved North Carolina's Action Plan for a $1.4 billion grant to help western North Carolina rebuild following Hurricane Helene. When compared to other states' performance over the past decade, North Carolina submitted its Helene Action Plan to HUD in the shortest amount of time following a major hurricane.
"This is great news for western North Carolina," said Governor Josh Stein. "I thank the Trump Administration for moving quickly to approve this plan so we can get busy rebuilding people's homes."
Approving the Action Plan was the required next step for North Carolina to receive federal funds from the CDBG-DR grant award, which was first announced in January. Once HUD certifies the state's financial controls for the program, North Carolina can sign the grant agreement and begin committing these funds with a focus on housing and economic revitalization.
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Thistle
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Posted 10:00 pm, 05/28/2025
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Donald and company denied North Carolina's request for the agency to match 100% of the state funds for Helene cleanup, according to a letter sent from the acting FEMA administrator to the governor of North Carolina.
"After a careful and thorough review of all the information available, including that contained in your initial request for a cost share adjustment and appeal, we have concluded that an extension of the 100 percent federal cost share for debris removal and emergency protective measures, including direct federal assistance for an additional 180 days under major disaster declaration FEMA-4827-DR is not warranted," acting Administrator David Richardson wrote in the letter.
In a statement, North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein said the denial will cost state residents "hundreds of millions of dollars."
"The money we have to pay toward debris removal will mean less money towards supporting our small businesses, rebuilding downtown infrastructure, repairing our water and sewer systems and other critical needs," he said. This OK???
Donald in Jan: While visiting North Carolina in January, Donald criticized the Biden administration for what he said was not doing enough to provide relief. Donald claimed former President Joe Biden "did a bad job" in aiding North Carolinians in the aftermath of the hurricane, saying, "This is totally unacceptable, and I'll be taking strong action."
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