Congress Proposes $81-Billion Disaster Aid Package

Congress is considering an $81 billion disaster aid package that would include money for the California wildfires and this year's devastating hurricanes.  

It's more than the $44 billion the White House initially asked for to deal with relief efforts on the Gulf Coast and in the Caribbean.  

Republican leaders added more money after California lawmakers objected that the administration had failed to include help for areas damaged by wildfires and Democrats protested that the overall amount President Trump asked for was insufficient.

If approved later this week, the package would bring to $130 billion the amount Congress has spent this year on a particularly destructive season of hurricanes that tore through Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and wildfires that are still burning in California.


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