Trump just denied North Carolina's request for FEMA relief from Hurricane Helene, calling it "unwarranted." 🇺🇸

[TAYLONDO SAMSWORTHY]

FEMA has denied North Carolina’s request to continue matching 100% of the state’s spending on Hurricane Helene recovery.

In a letter to Gov. Josh Stein on Friday, acting FEMA administrator Cameron Hamilton wrote that the agency had determined the full cost share was “not warranted.”

“The need in western North Carolina remains immense — people need debris removed, homes rebuilt, and roads restored,” Stein said in a statement.

“I am extremely disappointed and urge the President to reconsider FEMA’s bad decision, even for 90 days. Six months later, the people of western North Carolina are working hard to get back on their feet; they need FEMA to help them get the job done.”

FEMA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The agency’s decision means that North Carolina will lose a critical share of federal assistance in what’s expected to be a years-long rebuild process.

After Helene struck in late September, the Biden administration gave the green light for FEMA to reimburse North Carolina on 100% of disaster relief assistance — particularly with debris removal and emergency protective services. The cost-share allowed state officials to plow ahead on time-sensitive needs more quickly.

In December, FEMA also set the federal cost-share for all other categories of assistance at 90%. But the 100% period for debris cleanup and other services was set to end after six months.

Local and state officials have requested repeatedly that it be extended — preferably another six months — in order to speed up recovery from the deadliest hurricane in state history. But the agency, now under the authority of a president who has floated the idea of dismantling it altogether, will no longer shoulder full costs for that work.

U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards, the Republican congressman who represents western North Carolina, told the Asheville Citizen-Times that Stein’s extension request had been “unprecedented.”

FEMA will stop 100% cost-share in Helene recovery • NC Newsline

"I am extremely disappointed and urge the President to reconsider FEMA’s bad decision, even for 90 days," Gov. Josh Stein said.

ncnewsline.com

 

[feelosofer]

Donald Trump is a mad king now.

 

[num123]

 

[StatUS]

During the election Trump said Biden/Harris were ignoring North Carolina during the emergency. This forced Biden to come out at a press conference baffled that he would lie like that. Biden sent tons of aid to NC along with talks on the phone with the Governor.

North Carolina still voted for Trump and are now really being ignored.

 

[Tair]

They voted for him and he did'em dirty like that?

 

[Vandelay]

 

[Silkk]

 

[RickyDiBiase]

 

[Trips]

I mean this is exactly why they voted for him. He's just telling them that the only way to make NC great again is to pick themselves up and not ask the government for a handout. Just give NC the chance to show the rest of the States in the Union what they can do.

 

[Nick Street]

North Carolina's FEMA extension request denied​

 

[the cac mamba]

 

[RennisDeynolds]

I remember before the election he went to North Carolina after Helene, and somebody asked him about Florida relief and he straight up said "maybe we get rid of fema altogether . Why don't the states figure out their own problems "


There was two cac supporters in the background that hit the

 

[MikelArteta]

Maybe he'll throw a roll of toilet paper at em

 

[-DMP-]

No pain. No gain

 

[RennisDeynolds]

We are completely fukked in Texas this year then for hurricane season .


It makes it worse that our state is his biggest dikkriders. Copying every policy and making a "Texas doge"