<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Ondertussen is van <i class="">business as usual</i> geen sprake meer in de VS.</div><div class="">Haalt de VS de verkiezingen nog?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Politico: "DISASTER SUPP ODDS<br class=""><br class="">The need for a disaster aid package is a lone source of bipartisan, bicameral agreement on government funding right now. But don’t expect action until after August recess — and that could be a problem.<br class=""><br class="">FEMA just detailed its latest accounting of the disaster aid piggy bank, predicting that the Biden administration will burn through almost all of the cash in the coming weeks.<br class=""><br class="">The balance in the Disaster Relief Fund: about $9 billion. The expected shortfall: $6 billion before the new fiscal year starts in October.<br class=""><br class="">The Department of Transportation also tells us there’s about $900 million left in the emergency highway fund that’s been covering costs from the March collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.<br class=""><br class="">On both sides of the Capitol, the support for an emergency aid package is there, following President Joe Biden’s request late last month for $4 billion in emergency cash. So far, the urgency — and bandwidth — is not. Blame the regular funding bills and a torrent of political surprises this summer.”<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/inside-congress/2024/07/16/congress-faces-a-6b-disaster-hole-00168766" class="">https://www.politico.com/newsletters/inside-congress/2024/07/16/congress-faces-a-6b-disaster-hole-00168766</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">HL<br class=""><div class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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