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Donald Trump said he received a $17 million insurance payment for 2005 hurricane damage at his private Florida resort
October 24, 2016
Trump’s description of the extensive damage to Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., does not match accounts from his supporters and the club’s members. And he apparently admitted that he had pocketed some of the payout because of the terms of his insurance policy.
Trump admitted in a 2007 deposition about an unrelated matter that he had a “very good insurance policy” during a series of storms two years before, The AP said. And he added that he had pocketed some of the $17 million because the terms of his policy meant “you didn’t have to reinvest it.”
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/...n-storm-damage
FEMA and NOAA Face Hurricane Season Without New Leaders in Place
Northern Hemisphere’s 2017 hurricane season began on 1 June, and the federal agency in charge of forecasts and warnings has predicted that an “above-normal” six months could well be in store.
http://www.snopes.com/2017/06/02/fem...ricane-season/
This year, key federal agencies that state and local governments and the public depend on still don't have leaders. Nearly five months after Donald Trump was sworn in as president, NOAA, the agency that oversees the government's weather forecasting, is still without an administrator, as is the agency that responds to disasters, FEMA.
With no permanent administrator in place for those discussions, FEMA is one of the agencies that have been targeted for significant cuts under the budget the president submitted to Congress. Under that budget, a program that helps states and communities take long-term measures to reduce losses from disasters, the Pre-Disaster Mitigation Grant Program, has been cut by more than 60 percent. The budget also eliminates funding for an ongoing effort to improve and redraw the nation's flood maps.
http://www.npr.org/2017/06/01/531012...-proposed-cuts
President George W. Bush seemed to get nothing right when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on Monday, Aug. 29, 2005.
"Brownie," G.W. Bush said, "you're doing a heckuva job."
"Brownie" was Michael D. Brown, Bush's 2003 appointee as the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The occasion was an impromptu press conference after the president eventually decided to visit the wind-whipped and flooded region where almost 2,000 people had died in the costliest natural disaster to hit the U.S.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...-now/32485703/
October 24, 2016
Trump’s description of the extensive damage to Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., does not match accounts from his supporters and the club’s members. And he apparently admitted that he had pocketed some of the payout because of the terms of his insurance policy.
Trump admitted in a 2007 deposition about an unrelated matter that he had a “very good insurance policy” during a series of storms two years before, The AP said. And he added that he had pocketed some of the $17 million because the terms of his policy meant “you didn’t have to reinvest it.”
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/...n-storm-damage
FEMA and NOAA Face Hurricane Season Without New Leaders in Place
Northern Hemisphere’s 2017 hurricane season began on 1 June, and the federal agency in charge of forecasts and warnings has predicted that an “above-normal” six months could well be in store.
http://www.snopes.com/2017/06/02/fem...ricane-season/
This year, key federal agencies that state and local governments and the public depend on still don't have leaders. Nearly five months after Donald Trump was sworn in as president, NOAA, the agency that oversees the government's weather forecasting, is still without an administrator, as is the agency that responds to disasters, FEMA.
With no permanent administrator in place for those discussions, FEMA is one of the agencies that have been targeted for significant cuts under the budget the president submitted to Congress. Under that budget, a program that helps states and communities take long-term measures to reduce losses from disasters, the Pre-Disaster Mitigation Grant Program, has been cut by more than 60 percent. The budget also eliminates funding for an ongoing effort to improve and redraw the nation's flood maps.
http://www.npr.org/2017/06/01/531012...-proposed-cuts
President George W. Bush seemed to get nothing right when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on Monday, Aug. 29, 2005.
"Brownie," G.W. Bush said, "you're doing a heckuva job."
"Brownie" was Michael D. Brown, Bush's 2003 appointee as the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The occasion was an impromptu press conference after the president eventually decided to visit the wind-whipped and flooded region where almost 2,000 people had died in the costliest natural disaster to hit the U.S.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...-now/32485703/
