"WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is sending a roughly $100 billion request to Congress to help Americans impacted by a series of major and record-breaking natural disasters in 2023 and 2024, including Hurricanes Helene and Milton, calling on lawmakers to pass the needed relief with “bipartisan and bicameral support.”
It includes $40 billion for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Disaster Relief Fund, after the federal government rapidly spent a recent infusion of around $20 billion from Congress to respond to hurricane season after it ran out of money amid other tornadoes, wildfires and floods.
The whopping topline number is roughly five times the amount Congress initially gave FEMA in its yearly budget process. Congress granted FEMA’s major disasters fund $20.2 billion for the 2024 fiscal year, according to a Congressional Research Service report. But a constant stream of deadly and destructive storms, wildfires and drained the agency’s coffers again and again."
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