Trump pledges $448M for Florida hurricane recovery

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Source: The Hill

PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla.— President Trump on Wednesday pledged $448 million in new funding to help Florida recover from Hurricane Michael, a Category 5 Storm that devastated the northwest part of the state last fall.

Trump announced the additional Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recovery funds at a campaign rally after touring damage from the storm at nearby Tyndall Air Force Base. He said the federal government would pay 90 percent of the costs “in many circumstances."

“The money is coming immediately. No games, no gimmicks, no delays,” he said. “We will never, ever leave your side.”

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After announcing additional investments in the Florida recovery process, Trump chided Puerto Rican leaders for their response to his administration's recovery efforts following Hurricane Maria.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/442836-trump-pledges-448m-for-florida-hurricane-recovery

[Chin music]

1. As if he's writing a check himself for it.

Out of his upsidedown business model. No wonder he prefers stealing and bribes and grifting now. Perfect job for a failure rich kid. Endless money in the American Treasury.

[underpants]

2. "Immediately"? Hurricane Michael was 6 months ago

These people will buy anything and he knows it.

[dhill926]

12. I know.....wtf?

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. Immediately, traitor says...

Didn’t that weather event happen last fall?

[BigmanPigman]

4. Was this before or after he thanked them for paying their taxes like good citizens?

[area51]

5. Correction:

"We will never, ever leave Mar-A-Lago's side."

There, fixed it for ya, Donny.

[sakabatou]

6. Yeah right

[nitpicker]

7. Drops in the bucket

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2019/05/07/donald-trump-hurricane-michael-disaster-relief-trump-rally-panama-city-beach-puerto-rico/1130136001/

Mr. Trump, here's what Hurricane Michael damage still looks like today

Nate Chute, Tallahassee DemocratPublished 7:06 p.m. ET May 7, 2019 | Updated 5:58 p.m. ET May 8, 2019

Almost seven months after Hurricane Michael made landfall at Mexico Beach, President Donald Trump is returning to the area. He'll be speaking at a rally in Panama City Beach Wednesday evening, the same city he visited less than a week after the storm in 2018.

In the months since Michael, we've learned that estimated losses, including spending, loss of gross product and personal income, from the Category 5 storm could be as high as $53 billion. Property damages alone top $5 billion.
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[JI7]

8. failed lying piece of fucked up shit along with his shitty supporters who need to believe in White

Superiority and the superiority of white trump over black Obama.

[Maxheader]

9. For 2020 enticement?

Its lying about recovery funds for future hurricanes?..

[hatrack]

10. Well, that might be enough to fix up the Air Force base . . . .

Assuming that funding exists, of course.

[nitpicker]

11. More on the cleanup costs

https://www.newsherald.com/news/20190411/commission-chair-bay-county-will-not-survive-without-help-disaster-relief-funding

PANAMA CITY — Warning that a lack of disaster relief funding from Tallahassee and Congress will have disastrous consequences, Bay County Commission Chair Philip Griffitts laid it all on the table during a press conference Thursday to pressure state and federal lawmakers into action.

“Bay County, Panama City, Lynn Haven, Parker, Springfield, Callaway, Mexico Beach, will not survive without help,” he said. “They will not survive. You cannot survive when your debris hauling bill is 10-times your budget.”

Local communities were drowning, first in the millions of cubic yards of debris left behind by Hurricane Michael in October, then in the massive bills to clean it up. It’s estimated Hurricane Michael dropped over a million trees in Panama City alone. For unincorporated Bay County, the debris hauling bill is about $380 million, but factoring in the municipalities, Griffitts estimated the cost will end up being around $750 million, or three-quarters of a billion dollars. “That’s just not feasible for a community this size,” he said.

The county, he said, did a cost analysis, comparing the costs for Miami-Dade County in Hurricane Irma to Bay County’s costs for Hurricane Michael. Based on their damage assessment, they found it would have cost each person in Miami-Dade $130 to bail them out of hurricane debt. In Bay County, it would cost each person $3,600.“So if you all want to pony up $3,600, we could get out of this real quick,” he joked.
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[Linda Ed]

13. The Trump administration is at it again.

Last Wednesday, the administration sent a $4.5 billion request for a supplemental funding package that includes billions for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). They’re trying to grab billions more in taxpayer dollars to militarize the border and criminalize, detain, and deport more immigrants.
Make no mistake: this is an attempt to fast-track even more funding to fuel Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda and to expand an already massive and inhumane immigrant detention system, all disguised in the language of humanitarian response. We need your help today to stop Congress from adding one more dollar to Trump’s deportation machine

call:1 844 909 0232 and tell your member of Congress to reject the White House’s supplemental budget request for the Department of Homeland Security.
There is a real refugee crisis at the border, one that we need to address, but what Trump is proposing is NOT a humanitarian response.