{"id":25327,"date":"2017-09-07T06:33:02","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T11:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25327"},"modified":"2017-09-07T06:33:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T11:33:02","slug":"fema-expected-to-run-out-of-money-by-friday-as-superstorm-irma-approaches-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25327","title":{"rendered":"FEMA Expected To Run Out Of Money By Friday As Superstorm Irma Approaches Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FEMA Expected To Run Out Of Money By Friday As Superstorm Irma Approaches Florida<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

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\"\"<\/a>By Carey Wedler<\/a><\/p>\n

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has suffered from a shoddy\u00a0reputation<\/a>\u00a0for quite some time, particularly after its\u00a0failed response<\/a>\u00a0to Hurricane Katrina in 2005. As the Gulf coast recovers from Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma approaches Florida, FEMA faces further failure as its funds near depletion.<\/p>\n

Bloomberg\u00a0<\/em>reported<\/a>\u00a0Tuesday that the agency is nearly broke and is expected to run out of money on Friday, according to a Senate aide. According to the outlet:<\/p>\n

As of 10 a.m. Tuesday morning, FEMA\u2019s Disaster Relief Fund, which pays for the agency\u2019s disaster response and recovery activity, had just $1.01 billion on hand. And of that, just $541 million was \u2018immediately available\u2019 for response and recovery efforts related to Hurricane Harvey, according to a spokeswoman for FEMA who asked not to be identified by name.<\/p>\n

The $1.01 billion in the fund Tuesday morning is less than half of the $2.14 billion that was there at 9 a.m. last Thursday morning \u2014 a spend rate of $9.3 million every hour, or about $155,000 a minute.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Trump administration has already asked Congress for nearly $8 billion in additional funds, though\u00a0Reuters\u00a0<\/em>noted<\/a>\u00a0that request may be delayed unless Congress raises the debt limit, as Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin has asked it to do.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWithout raising the debt limit, I am not comfortable that we will get money to Texas this month to rebuild,\u201d Mnuchin told\u00a0Fox News.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Even the $8 billion sum is only a drop in the bucket compared to the estimated damage Harvey incurred. Texas Governor Greg Abbott\u00a0expects<\/a>\u00a0recovery and rebuilding will cost between $150 to $180 billion.<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, Brock Long, head of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency,\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0CBS News<\/em>\u00a0that state and local governments need to step up their efforts.<\/p>\n

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