The White House is asking lawmakers for nearly $56 billion in emergency spending for disaster relief, child care funding and broadband
ByFILE - President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden greet first responders as they visit areas devastated by the Maui wildfires, Aug. 21, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. The White House is asking lawmakers for more than $23 billion in emergency funding to help the government respond to the natural disasters that have ripped through the U.S. this year.
The White House says the request for additional disaster relief – parsed out among the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other federal agencies that cover housing, transportation and agriculture needs – is based on estimates from communities that have been hit by disasters this year, such as the August wildfires in Hawaii, hurricanes in Florida and flooding in California and Vermont, among other extreme weather events.
The biggest portion of the $23.5 billion in Biden’s disaster request is $9 billion to beef up FEMA’s disaster relief fund, which the agency taps for immediate response and recovery efforts once a natural disaster hits. That fund currently has $33.7 billion available, according to FEMA. In particular, Washington Sen. Patty Murray and Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the two top Democrats in Congress overseeing government spending, have been aggressively pushing senior administration officials behind the scenes on shoring up federal funding for child care, according to people familiar with the conversations.
The $24 billion in so-called “stabilization funds” were designed to help child care providers operate during the pandemic, but were required under law to be used by Sept. 30 of this year. The pandemic-era funding aided more than 220,000 providers, covering child care for up to 10 million children, according to Health and Human Services.
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