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President Trump pledged in August that he planned to send at least 700 troops to the country affected by Hurricane Harvey. Trump, speaking at the White House in September, called on Congress to take immediate action on funding for rebuilding efforts while the storm rages in Texas.
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The storm is expected to linger into the next week, with much of the damage in Texas being completed before it sets back to the U.S. East Coast and threatens coastal ports and U.S. territories.
Trump has said he planned to send troops along the Texas coast, but hasn’t specified when and if they’ll reach Houston. In New York City and on Wednesday in Florida, he and Vice President Mike Pence announced that 10,000 National Guard soldiers will be deployed to Houston, and they are slated to begin deployments “to a greater degree” in the coming days.
Texas is the fourth-larg바카라사이트est oil producing state, and the hurricane will affect the state’s entire economy and economic development. The impact could take years. Experts say rebuilding in Texas is more likely to cost at least $100 billion to $125 billion and take five years to complete.
Trump and Pence have said repeatedly that the disaster will be paid for by cutting funding for other emergency management operations and by giving state and local governments more tools to respond to catastrophic weather eme더킹카지노rgencies, including levee systems.
The president and vice president have also promised an assessment of how quickly recovery efforts can happen, but there’s no timetable yet for their proposal to help the storm be paid for.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., on Wednesday predicted “massive relief efforts” would be required by next week.
The House has passed dozens of emergency spending bills for the 2017 fiscal year, but has not yet considered a bill to rebuild the country’s infrastructure during the aftermath of Harvey’s worst flooding in decades. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence say on Sunday they’ll consider their respective budgets in January and February, but the hurricane appears to be a priority for congressional Republicans as they work toward their tax overhaul proposal.