Hurricane Helene Relief Clears Congress, Shutdown Dodged

Looks like a Christmas miracle!

With Congress approving $110 billion in disaster aid, North Carolina is FINALLY getting some financial help, which comes to about $9 billion.

This will be used to rebuild after Hurricane Helene.

And with Biden’s signature (or does he now use a rubber stamp with his signature on it?), he has sealed the deal just in time.

But how much of the $9 billion will they actually get?

Will it be funneled into oblivion, will it get lost Pentagon-style?

Third time’s a charm: House passes bill with disaster relief funding for North Carolina. It avoids a government shutdown & includes over $100 billion in disaster relief, including $9 billion for Helene relief in NC. (Via @dani__battaglia) #ncpol https://t.co/zranMfMV0O

— Keung Hui (@nckhui) December 21, 2024

Washington Examiner reports:

Relief efforts for Hurricane Helene in North Carolina were bolstered overnight Friday into Saturday with bicameral passage of a resolution avoiding a government shutdown.

Overall, there’s $110 billion for a number of disasters – Helene, Hurricane Milton, Typhoon Mawar, tornadoes and wildfires – within the American Relief Act 2025, also known as House Resolution 10545.

Republican U.S. Rep. Dan Bishop, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice as deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, was the only North Carolinian against the resolution of all 16 casting a vote in the Senate and House of Representatives.

President Joe Biden is expected to sign the legislation Saturday.

Not including FEMA assistance projected to be in the billions of dollars, North Carolina aid is about $9 billion of the package, a release from U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., says. The money will help block development programs; farmers; infrastructure to include roads, highways and bridges; and drinking water infrastructure.

“Western North Carolina will need significant resources to be made whole again,” Tillis said in an overnight release.

Tillis and Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Budd, along with Republican U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards, joined Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper in making a $25.57 billion pitch to the president month.

“At long last, the people of western North Carolina will begin to receive the disaster aid they do desperately need and deserve,” Budd said in a Saturday release. “It is going to take years to fully recover after the devastation of Hurricane Helene. I will continue to stand shoulder to shoulder with the resilient citizens of the western mountains as they undertake the difficult job of rebuilding. They will never be forgotten as long as I have anything to say about it.”

A great question was raised.

Why does Congress have to vote for money for our own people but if want to send billions to another country, it’s no problem?

Wait…why does Congress have to vote to give aid to North Carolina but the WH can just decide to give a billion to Ecuador whenever they feel like it? https://t.co/uyvlMgOixa

— Flower Child (Indepedent for RFKJr} (@flowerchild6t9) December 21, 2024

But maybe we need to send $900 billion dollars to Ukraine.

Just look at them compared to North Carolina.

5 days before Christmas as Hurricane Victims are suffering…they’re sending another $1,200,000,000.00 to Ukraine.
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— Liz Churchill (@liz_churchill10) December 20, 2024

I mean, just look at their outfits!

Better send them $900 trillion so they can all get diamond covered clothes.

No one should suffer like them.

Ps. Did you notice that Michael Jackson song was censored?

29 years ago MJ tried to tell us that they truly don’t care about us.