Pence details the billions Texas has received to recover from Harvey
AUSTIN, Texas _ The federal government has distributed more than $1 billion in housing assistance for Hurricane Harvey victims, Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday.
Pence came to Austin to meet with Gov. Greg Abbott for a briefing from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Along with housing assistance, the federal government has also approved $2.26 billion for small businesses across Texas and dedicated more than $490 million to public assistance programs. The National Flood Insurance Program has paid out more than $4.4 billion to Texans after Harvey, Pence said.
"We've made the full resources of the federal government available," Pence said. "And to the people of Texas, I'm told at this point we still have 3,600 federal officials on the ground in Texas."
Abbott mentioned his Monday meeting with Mick Mulvaney, director of the Office of Management and Budget, during which he requested $61 billion.
"I anticipate that the OMB will be issuing some suggested amount of funding later on this week," Abbott said. "I know the House is eager to take it up, as well as the U.S. Senate. These are steps along the way as we've continued the rebuilding process."
_The Dallas Morning News
