Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I was Governor of Florida from January 2011 through January 2019, and we had a variety of disasters. We had four major hurricanes; we had wildfires; we had flooding--a variety of things. What you find out in that role as Governor is you find out the importance of the Federal Government. FEMA is very important to disaster relief. Disaster relief is partially borne by whomever is impacted, a family or a business. Partially, it is impacted by the city or county, partially by the State, and partially by the Federal Government. My experience with FEMA is they are hard-working individuals that work hard to try to be a good partner with our States. Last September, about 12 months ago, we had a horrible hurricane in our State, Hurricane Ian. We lost over 150 people. We had unbelievable damage. FEMA has been a partner in that hurricane relief. Just recently--about 3 weeks ago, 4 weeks ago--we had another hurricane, Idalia, and again FEMA came down and is a partner in that hurricane relief. I met with President Biden 3 weeks ago when he came down to tour the damage, and I talked to him about the importance of getting FEMA fully funded. There is a Federal Disaster Relief Fund that is part of FEMA that pays for things like debris pickup, helps individuals who have lost their homes, helps our small businesses--a variety of things like that. Right now, this thing is getting low on funds. I checked on September 11. It is down to $2.5 billion.…”