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The amendment in the nature of a substitute offered to H.R. 152 provides $17 billion in emergency funding in addition to the $9.7 billion already authorized for the NFIP. Total funding, including the increased borrowing authority, the Rogers's AINS, and the Frelinghuysen amendment to the AINS is approximately $60.4 billion.
Critics pointed out that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) allocated $640.9 million this year in FEMA-administered funds to aid state and local governments coping with the influx of asylum ...
The Act amended the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to increase from $20.725 billion to $30.425 billion the total amount of notes and obligations (i.e. federal borrowing authority) which may be issued by the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), with the President's approval, for the National Flood Insurance Program.
In February 2010, President Obama formed the bipartisan Bowles–Simpson Commission to recommend steps that could be taken to reduce future budget deficits. The commission released its report on November 10, 2010, which recommended deep domestic and military spending cuts, reforming the tax system by eliminating many tax breaks in return for lower overall rates, and reducing benefits for ...
The funding package, which includes $40 billion for FEMA's disaster relief fund and more than $2 billion for the depleted Small Business Administration loan program, would be delivered to Congress ...
According to the Social Security Administration, the average retirement benefit payment was $1,756.85 in July. While this amount can already make covering expenses challenging, proposed cuts to ...
It supplements any federal disaster grant assistance that a business or organization has already received. [3] The federal share of assistance should be less than 75% of the eligible cost of emergency efforts and restoration. [4] The remaining funds are generally allocated by the state government agencies and are distributed amongst eligible ...
Hurricane season runs June 1 to Nov. 30, but most hurricanes typically occur in September and October. Congress recently replenished a key source of FEMA's response efforts, providing $20 billion for the agency's disaster relief fund as part of a short-term government spending bill to fund the government through Dec. 20. The bill also gave FEMA ...