Congress expects white house disaster aid request next week
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Lawmakers are likely to need at least a few more weeks to finalize bill text and pass an assistance package through both chambers. Lawmakers anticipate the Biden administration will send
them a disaster aid request next week outlining needed relief following hurricanes Helene and Milton, according to the House’s top two appropriators. Congressional leaders aim to then
finalize and pass a bipartisan assistance package sometime after Thanksgiving that could total more than $100 billion, boosting aid to communities hit by the two hurricanes this fall, as
well as a yearslong, nationwide backlog of recovery work for disasters like severe flooding, wildfires and landslides. Advertisement House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) and his
Democratic counterpart, Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro, both said they expect broad bipartisan support for clearing disaster aid in the coming weeks, even as the separate task of funding the
government next month is complicated by the Hill’s changing balance of power. GET FULL ACCESS