Property damage, lost wages, disrupted business, damaged infrastructure are estimated to cost $75 Billion. Only $2.3 Billion remains in the federal disaster relief fund. All those people who lost homes came out of Hurricane Harvey disaster with nothing. That fund will be drained. Fast.
The spending bill currently in Congress cuts nearly $1 billion dollars from disaster relief and redirects $876 million as half the payment to fund the beginning of the construction of the Mexican border wall. That wall is going to cost 10 to 50 times more than this. Trump insists he will shut government down if that wall isn't funded.
This is your Republican government at work, Stroker.
The truth hurts, doesn't it.
http://time.com/4922472/house-republicans-fema-funding-cut-border-wall/
The pending reduction to the Federal Emergency Management Agency's disaster relief account is part of a massive spending bill that the House is scheduled to consider next week when lawmakers return from their August recess. The $876 million cut, which is included in the 1,305-page measure's homeland security section, pays for roughly half the cost of Trump's down payment on the U.S.-Mexico border wall that the president repeatedly promised Mexico would finance.