The Category 5 hurricane barreling toward Florida will put new pressure on Congress to reconvene to refill dwindling disaster relief accounts.
Less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene slammed into Florida and ravaged communities across the Southeast, a new storm — Hurricane Milton — is threatening to finish off a brutal one-two punch that will further strain the federal government’s disaster coffers.
Hurricane Milton “is not happening in a vacuum. There are five other states that have emergencies going on from Hurricane Helene,” Rep. Jared Moskowitz, a Florida Democrat who served as the state’s director of emergency management from 2019 to 2021, said Monday on CNN.
“There’s absolutely going to be a resource issue,” he said.