My home state of Connecticut is waiting on $5 million in hazardous mitigation funds and some $80 million in public assistance funds. This repayment for expenses FEMA has already approved or stuck in Secretary Noem's endless queue. Survivors of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina have received only 1 billion of the estimated 60 billion in damages. the state experienced from the storm. And FEMA has been withholding millions of dollars in mitigation funding from Florida, Louisiana and Texas. Now, FEMA's lost thousands of employees in the first half of 2025. (11:23–11:35)
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Asserts the disparity between damages and aid received in North Carolina post-Hurricane Helene.
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