President Biden to meet with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as recovery continues from Hurricane Ian

President Joe Biden will visit Florida to see the catastrophic damage left behind by Hurricane Ian. He will meet with local officials – including Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis.

(AP) President Joe Biden will visit hurricane-ravaged Florida with a pledge that federal, state and local governments will work as one to help rebuild homes, businesses and lives — putting politics on mute for now to focus on those in need.

Hurricane Ian has resulted in at least 72 people in Florida confirmed dead, as hundreds of thousands of people wait for power to be restored. Biden planned to meet Wednesday with residents and small business owners in Fort Myers, Florida, and to thank government officials for providing emergency aid and removing debris.


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[jonnip]

It is only fitting that ANY American president offer assistance to disaster ravaged states, regardless of partisan politics. It's the diehard critics who cant shut up. That's when the people are hurt the worst. It's when the people are most affected, and do the most to help one another volunteering freely. God bless FL.🇺🇸

[brittneyk]

“All governors ask the federal government for assistance after a major natural disaster, regardless of who is in the White House.

For DeSantis, the eagerness to accept the money comes against the backdrop of not only being one of Biden’s biggest critics, but also his past record rejecting federal disaster relief for New York and New Jersey in the aftermath of 2012’s Hurricane Sandy.

NOW, DeSantis, has no such hang-ups about federal funds. He asked Biden for an emergency declaration for all Florida’s 67 counties, which the president approved, freeing up federal money for counties devastated by Hurricane Ian.

‘I just spoke with the president this morning and he offered support. I told him thanks for this.’

One day later, Biden agreed to the request, expanding the declaration to four Central Florida counties affected by the storm. It brought the total number of countries set to receive waves of federal disaster relief funding to 14.

This is not the first time DeSantis accepted billions of dollars in federal aid to fund high-profile spending items, even as Florida enjoys a $20 billion budget surplus.

Over the past two years, DeSantis’ state budget has included nearly $10 billion from the Biden administration’s federal Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds, money that the governor used to pay for a wide-range of non pandemic-related programs.”

INTERESTING! 🤔

[robertk]

Second time Biden has helped Florida despite the disgusting language DePutin uses about Biden. Either DePutin is a hypocrite or, politics is WWE, fake