and other storm victims? I did not hear this anywhere. It may have been lost in the clutter of how Obama is failing:eyes:
This is great news for the gulf coast!:) It's long overdue!
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Obama's Team Announces $438M In Storm Aid
Additional Funding For Housing, Businesses
POSTED: 11:36 am CST March 5, 2009
NEW ORLEANS -- An additional $438 million in disaster assistance is on its way to boost hurricane recovery in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.
Feds Release Millions More In Katrina Funds
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan announced the funding Thursday during a tour of the Lower Ninth Ward and other areas hit hard by Hurricane Katrina.
"What we have seen today makes us disturbed, angry even, to see some of the families living the way that they have," Donovan said.
It was an eye-opener for the duo from President Barack Obama's administration. They kicked off a two-day visit to the Gulf Coast region with a bus tour of Southern University of New Orleans and then Chalmette to see first-hand the snail's pace of recovery from the storm.
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