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Biden says federal government will cover 100% of cost of California wildfires for first 180 days
Spectrum News NY1 ^ | 1/9/25

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at ny1.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: bidencrimewave; bidenflation; california; debt; deficit; disaster; fire; fjb; giveaway; inflation; spendaholics
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!00 percent for 180 days...

Sorry NC and West Tenn.

1 posted on 01/12/2025 6:10:14 PM PST by EBH
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To: EBH

10% for the big guy.


2 posted on 01/12/2025 6:11:51 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: EBH

Yeah, where’d all the funds pop up from? Thought the government of the Biden was broke. Irks me.


3 posted on 01/12/2025 6:12:41 PM PST by madison10
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180 Days? More like eight.


4 posted on 01/12/2025 6:13:13 PM PST by Wallace T.
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But, but, but FEMA has extra tents...


5 posted on 01/12/2025 6:13:43 PM PST by GOPJ (AMERICA FOR AMERICANS if anyone wants to live in an overpopulated hellhole they can MOVE there..)
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To: EBH

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?


6 posted on 01/12/2025 6:15:02 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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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


7 posted on 01/12/2025 6:15:18 PM PST by cuz1961 (Isaiah 53:3)
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To: EBH

How does this POS have any authority to do this? He’s not the king.


8 posted on 01/12/2025 6:15:20 PM PST by Dave911
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Those places aren’t on the potato’s map.


9 posted on 01/12/2025 6:15:31 PM PST by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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Biden to bail out Newsom for Nancy Pelosi family. Sorry Joe, all the monney in the treasury can’t cover up stupid.


10 posted on 01/12/2025 6:16:07 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (. War is Hell, War IS a Crime.)
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How does this POS have any authority to do this? He’s not the king.

Setting up Trump to be the bad guy is why he is doing it.
11 posted on 01/12/2025 6:18:01 PM PST by ratzoe
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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 !!!!!


12 posted on 01/12/2025 6:18:40 PM PST by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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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


13 posted on 01/12/2025 6:22:38 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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And let the grift begin, 2025 edition.
 
 

14 posted on 01/12/2025 6:22:59 PM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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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.


15 posted on 01/12/2025 6:23:38 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (They were the FA-est of times, they were the FO-est of times.)
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Newsome was bragging of his state’s budget surplus, so we don’t need to print more money for him.


16 posted on 01/12/2025 6:26:30 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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So nice of him to throw my money around. /s


17 posted on 01/12/2025 6:27:25 PM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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California you are NOT Ukraine or Israel, WAIT YOUR DAMNED TURN!!!!
18 posted on 01/12/2025 6:28:22 PM PST by Angelino97
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Quid Pro Quo


19 posted on 01/12/2025 6:28:48 PM PST by Maelstrom (To prevent misinterpretation or abuse of the Constitution:The Bill of Rights limits government power)
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He made no such deceleration for NC. What he says is irrelevant at this point anyways. It is simply grandstanding.


20 posted on 01/12/2025 6:29:01 PM PST by Revel
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