Posted on 01/12/2025 6:10:14 PM PST by EBH
At the top of a nearly hour-long briefing in the Roosevelt Room, Biden pledged to send “every resource we can find” to support local officials, praising the firefighters and other first responders as “heroes.” He announced that the federal government would cover the full cost of recovery efforts, which includes things such as debris removal and temporary shelters, for the first 180 days.
“I told the governor and local officials: spare no expense to do what they need to do and contain these fires in their communities that have really been devastated," Biden said. "And we're doing literally everything we can at a federal level."
The president said that U.S. Forest Service personnel have suppressed 50 fire starts over the last 24 hours. He added that he is “surging all federal resources possible” to the region, including 400 additional firefighters and more than 30 helicopters and planes.
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Sorry NC and West Tenn.
10% for the big guy.
Yeah, where’d all the funds pop up from? Thought the government of the Biden was broke. Irks me.
180 Days? More like eight.
But, but, but FEMA has extra tents...
I don’t get how he can just hand out vast amounts of money like he’s the King of America.
I thought all spending bills originate in the House of Representatives.
The only way he can do it is to take money from something else that’s already been authorized.
Isn’t that in effect the “line item veto” that the Congress has never approved?
Yeah, where’d all the funds pop up from? Thought the government of the Biden was broke
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could be
all the money they saved left over from the hurricane help ?
/s
How does this POS have any authority to do this? He’s not the king.
Those places aren’t on the potato’s map.
Biden to bail out Newsom for Nancy Pelosi family. Sorry Joe, all the monney in the treasury can’t cover up stupid.
People in E. Palestine Ohio, the Carolinas, and Florida are STILL waiting.
California, GO TO THE BACK OF THE LINE!!!
California you are NOT Ukraine, WAIT YOUR DAMNED TURN!!!!
FJB !!!!!
Hmmmmmm
it hasnt been 180 days since Hurricane Helene and FEMA is demanding the tents back and are no longer helping the people of Eastern TN and Western NC
Time has run out for those folks
The Dems already have the California (and especially the LA) vote locked up. I’m surprised he’s doing this. Maybe their internal polling tells them CA people are fed up with Dem government incompetence at all levels.
Newsome was bragging of his state’s budget surplus, so we don’t need to print more money for him.
So nice of him to throw my money around. /s
Quid Pro Quo
He made no such deceleration for NC. What he says is irrelevant at this point anyways. It is simply grandstanding.
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