Rubio backs $33 billion Florida hurricane support supplemental
As Rubio launched his supplemental request Wednesday, Demings, who chairs the Home Homeland Safety Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Restoration Subcommittee that oversees FEMA, was main a congressional delegation to supervise company restoration efforts underway in Fort Myers.
Rubio and Florida’s different GOP senator, Rick Scott, despatched a letter to Senate Appropriations leaders on Sept. 30 requesting their help in growing a supplemental for Hurricane Ian to be “thought-about on the earliest alternative.”
“A sturdy and well timed federal response, together with by means of supplemental applications and funding, might be required to make sure that ample assets are offered to rebuild important infrastructure and public providers capability, and to help our fellow Floridians in rebuilding their lives,” the Florida senators wrote.
Eleven Home Republicans from Florida, led by Rep. Greg Steube, went a step additional in an Oct. 4 letter to Home Appropriations leaders in requesting that the catastrophe support be thought-about as a stand-alone measure.
“We ask that you simply solely concentrate on current hurricane disasters on this package deal, and free from any language that’s not instantly associated to the hurricane aid and restoration efforts,” they wrote.
