FEMA provides $ 124 million in total for HELENE road repairs, infrastructure

The Ministry of Internal Security published this week a second round of financing for Hurricane Helene Relief this week, even if the agency directs the increased resources towards the “mass deportation” of President Donald Trump.

The latest allocation of $ 28 million from Secretary Kristi Noem officially offered the total of the month to $ 124 million in FEMA funds on Sunday, which is in the DHS, for the deadly hurricane in category 4 which resulted in the Big Bend of Florida and devastated the smokies.

Funding will go to road repairs and the restoration of critical infrastructure – which is particularly necessary in North Carolina and Tennessee.

In this regard, a crucial extent of the Interstate 40 was washed in the Pigeon river near this state line – cutting the only path of major trucking on the mountains, because large vehicles are prohibited on the tail of the dragon and other regional passages.

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Devastation of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina, 2024. (Mario Tama / Getty Images)

FEMA funds have also been allocated to the concerns of the elimination of debris and “life and goods”.

“The families of North Carolina suffering from this unimaginable tragedy were cruelly ignored by the Biden administration,” said Vice-Tricia McLaughlin de Noem, in a statement.

“Under President Trump and the management of secretary Noem, the FEMA moves faster than ever to ensure that the Americans need. This decision to continue supporting the victims of the North Carolina of the Hurgagan Hélène testifies to this.”

Trump castigated former president Joe Biden Initial response to Helene, saying that he “did not like reports that (he had) obtained the federal government”.

Trump allegedly allegedly allegedly conservative areas – including the western half of North Carolina has a lot, with the notable exception of Asheville – were wrongly un served by the Federals.

Biden, however, rejected the complaint, cutting a journalist who asked him questions about it at the time.

Noem says that the criticism of the Federal response to the floods of Texas is “all politics”: “bad service to our country”

A highway in the direction is in the county of Cocke, tenn., Near the Northern Carolina line, collapsed in the raging Pigeon river during Hurdeman Helene, attached the regional trade. (Brianna Paciorka / Knoxville News-Sentinel / Imagn)

“He lies, and the governor told him that he was lying. I spoke to the governor. I spent time with him and he told me that (Trump is). Roy Cooper And the republican governor of Georgia Brian Kemp at that time.

The Republicans also castigated the secretary of the time, Alejandro Mayorkas, when he said that FEMA lacked funds in the midst of allegations that the agency spent large sums on the migrant crisis, according to the New York Post.

However, the representative Chuck Edwards, RN.C., who represents a band of communities ravaged by the storm, said in a “verification of the facts” His congress website that FEMA has not diverted any disaster response to the border or foreign aid.

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“The presence not linked to FEMA on the border has always been a major concern, even before Hurricane Helene, and I will continue to condemn their deployment of staff on the southern border, but we must separate the two problems,” said Edwards, while adding that the agency informed that they had enough money for recovery needs.

“The declaration of the Mayorkas secretary indicating the opposite was an irresponsible attempt to politicize a tragedy for personal purposes,” said Edwards.

Trump later said that a campaign rally in Pennsylvania that Biden’s response to Helene was worse than what followed Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

The president of the time, George W. Bush, was fustually castigated for praising the director’s response from the time, Michael Brown – pointing out “Brownie, you are doing a job of Heckuva”, said Bush during the implementation of recovery efforts in Mobile.