House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) again rebuffed claims on Oct. 13 that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) needed more funding to support victims of Hurricanes Helene and Milton.
Johnson said in a social media post on Sunday that FEMA had distributed only 2 percent of the more than $20 billion in disaster relief funding Congress had already provided the agency.
“They need to do their job and get this assistance to the people in need,” Johnson wrote in his post on X. “Once the total calculations are completed, Congress will address any additional needs.”
After making landfall in late September, Helene caused widespread damage across the South, particularly in western North Carolina. Milton slammed into Florida’s Gulf Coast as a Category 3 hurricane on Oct. 9, and officials are still surveying the extent of the damage….