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Mike Johnson: “Congress appropriated 20 billion additional dollars to FEMA…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Full interview Speaker Mike Johnson on Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan

Published | Video Starts at 01:02

Well, it can wait because remember the day before Hurricane Helene hit made landfall in Florida and then went up through the states and wound up in Senator Tillis, State of North Carolina, Congress appropriated 20 billion additional dollars to FEMA so that they would have the necessary resources to address immediate needs. And so we put that into the coffers. I just checked, Margaret, as of this morning, less than 2% of that funding has actually been distributed right around 2% of it. (01:02–01:10)

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Asserts that Congress allocated $20 billion to FEMA for immediate disaster needs.

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