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Disaster aid account faces shortfall

Tue, 08/30/2011 - 11:35 — Dave Culver
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  • Funds to help states and local governments rebuild from this year's tornadoes, as well as past disasters like hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the massive Tennessee floods of last spring, have been frozen.
  • Ron Paul and Eric Cantor's Views on Hurricane and Disaster Relief Are Immoral, Selfish, Wrong

Andrew Taylor, Associated Press/Huffington Post

The government's main disaster aid account is running woefully short of money as the Obama administration confronts damages from Hurricane Irene that could run into billions of dollars.

With less than $800 million in its disaster aid coffers, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has been forced to freeze rebuilding projects from disasters dating to Hurricane Katrina to conserve money for emergency needs in the wake of Irene. Lawmakers from states ravaged by tornadoes this spring, like Missouri and Alabama, are especially furious.

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Ron Paul and Eric Cantor's Views on Hurricane and Disaster Relief Are Immoral, Selfish, Wrong, Anthony Jerrod, Huffington Post

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