Biden asks Congress for $98 billion in Helene, Milton disaster relief funding

President Biden is asking Congress to o.k. astir $100 cardinal successful exigency backing to assistance recovery efforts for the caller deadly storms that ravaged parts of the South.

Biden sent a missive to House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., connected Monday asking him to rapidly instrumentality up his supplemental catastrophe assistance request, specifically aimed astatine helping radical affected by storms Helene and Milton.

The White House missive did not specify a total, but Fox News Digital was told it amounts to astir $98 billion.

"With the Congress present backmost successful session, I constitute to petition urgently needed exigency backing to supply for an expeditious and meaningful Federal effect to Hurricanes Helene and Milton and different earthy disasters," Biden wrote.

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President Biden wrote to Speaker Mike Johnson astir catastrophe assistance aft Helene and Milton. (Getty Images)

The speaker's bureau confirmed it received the request, and it was being reviewed by staff.

Fox News Digital besides reached retired to Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

Congressional leaders connected some sides of the aisle person repeatedly said they would basal acceptable to enactment connected tempest alleviation funds erstwhile a outgo estimation was made.

Johnson told Fox News Digital successful aboriginal October that Helene would apt beryllium "one of the astir costly storms that the state has ever encountered."

"It affects astatine slightest six states — a wide swath of demolition crossed many, galore areas — and I deliberation that's wherefore it's going to instrumentality a portion to assess," Johnson said astatine the time. "As soon arsenic those numbers are ready, Congress volition beryllium prepared to act."

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Photo of Hurricane Helene aftermath provided to Fox News Digital by the bureau of Congresswoman Kat Cammack. (Office of Congresswoman Kat Cammack)

Helene barreled into the Southeastern U.S. successful precocious September, sidesplitting much than 100 radical successful North Carolina unsocial and causing billions of dollars of structural damage.

Hurricane Milton, different deadly storm, deed Florida and Georgia astir a week later.

Biden's backing petition is expected to screen the FEMA Disaster Relief Fund, catastrophe funds for the Small Business Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency and different applicable areas.

It comes arsenic FEMA faces immoderate backlash aft an authoritative was caught instructing workers to disregard houses with pro-Trump run signs successful Florida aft Milton and Helene. 

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The extortion of the Tropicana Field is damaged the greeting aft Hurricane Milton deed the region, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024, successful St. Petersburg, Fla. (AP Photo/Mike Carlson)

FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell condemned the incident, which she called an isolated event.

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Criswell is owed earlier the House Oversight Committee connected Tuesday for a high-stakes hearing.

And portion immoderate supplemental alleviation bundle is expected to get wide capable bipartisan enactment to pass, House GOP hardliners are expected to reason the measurement if it does not offset the costs with cuts elsewhere.