Sentences with phrase «about federal disaster aid»

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The federal government spent about $ 277 billion on relief aid from 2005 to 2014, responding to natural disasters like Harvey, according to a 2016 report from the federal Government Accountability Office.

In her last days at the Water Authority, Mulroy began to talk about the drought as a natural disaster — like a flood, which often garners federal aid money and a swift emergency response — just slower moving.

Maryland and Virginia's U.S. senators say there's no time to waste in declaring the decline of Chesapeake Bay blue crabs a federal disaster... In a letter to federal authorities, the senators argue for a declaration that would provide about $ 20 million in federal aid to watermen and seafood processors hurt by the crab's decline... The letter was sent yesterday to Department of Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez.