As people still suffer from Hurricane Helene and Milton, President Joe Biden announced the U.S. will give $1,000,000,000 to African nations to help those displaced by natural disasters.
Biden said in Angola:
That’s the right thing for the wealthiest nation in the world to do. And today I’m announcing over $1 billion in new humanitarian support for Africans displaced from homes by historic droughts and food insecurity.We know African leaders and citizens are seeking more than just aid. You seek investment. So the United States is expanding our relationship all across Africa, from assistance to aid, investment to trade, moving from patrons to partners to help bridge the infrastructure gap. I was told, by the way, when I got elected, I could never get an infrastructure bill passed.
How about the Americans hit by natural disasters?
How about we stop sending money overseas and take care of Americans?
We’ve seen Americans helping Americans recover from Hurricane Helene and Milton.
In Northeast Tallahassee, real estate agency The American Dream started a nonprofit called “Rebuilding the American Dream.” It held a fundraiser to help people in the community. One event raised $10,000.
WTXL described the event as “a much-needed night away” because, get this, the towns still “look like landfills.”
Rebuilding the American Dream “will be assessing the damages and the needs that several families in the coastal areas are facing to distribute the money raised accordingly.”
On X, Matt Van Swol of technology company WYZE, has been updating everyone on those in North Carolina affected by Helene. He points out how Americans are helping each other and the absence of the government.
The help from FEMA is useless. Why don’t people take the hotel vouchers? Matt explains:
a) You’re living in Swannanoa NC when the river rises 22 feet and sweeps away your home and 2 vehicles.b) You have a family of 4 depending on you to make ends meet and work starts back in a few days.c) FEMA hands you a hotel voucher an hour’s drive from your now-destroyed home.d) You tell the FEMA rep, “Look, I don’t have a car and I can’t live in a hotel 40 miles away from work and the home I need to start fixing”e) FEMA says, “Ok, well your temporary home is 3 months away, sorry, so go live in the hotel.”f) You say, “If I go live in that hotel, I’ll lose my job, I won’t be able to repair my home, and everything we’ve worked so hard for will be gone.”g) FEMA says, “We still don’t understand why you won’t go live in a free hotel.”h) You decide to it’s actually LESS RISKY to live in a makeshift tent outside of your home and pray a volunteer will deliver you an RV than go live in a hotel an hour away and lose everything.
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