{"id":131875,"date":"2017-11-16T23:04:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T04:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=131875"},"modified":"2017-11-16T23:04:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T04:04:22","slug":"white-house-to-submit-45-billion-disaster-request-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/16\/white-house-to-submit-45-billion-disaster-request-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"White House to submit $45 billion disaster request Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_131879\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-131879\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/4217661984_fec1fcdf69_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-131879\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/4217661984_fec1fcdf69_z.jpg\" alt=\"The White House is sending Congress an approximately $45 billion disaster aid request Friday that will fall short of demands from hurricane-slammed Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico. (Photo by Tom Lohdan\/Flickr, CC BY 2.0)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/4217661984_fec1fcdf69_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/4217661984_fec1fcdf69_z-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-131879\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The White House is sending Congress an approximately $45 billion disaster aid request Friday that will fall short of demands from hurricane-slammed Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tom_lohdan\/4217661984\/in\/photolist-7qGBY5-bfJctT-fn6YtK-7hjKow-6QWdCE-bAsSmS-bPnpJH-bPnFtp-bAsRSy-fAtJW4-bAsJRy-bPnufH-bPnr76-bAt4XN-j6CK2-bPnCQ8-bPnJiF-7hjKxW-bPnBfv-bPnp98-bPnGrk-bAsVm5-4LGy9q-FMfmV-aAZeVB-gb1C-6mm8Ce-MnP47-5RerfU-7fdaMX-aDDZVc-5Yghf5-2XffX6-hVDMBY-7PvyNH-7PvyCK-dyC3Pk-dyC7Kr-dyC1zv-dyHxTh-dyC9Fx-dyC8pe-dyC2zT-7hjLfs-dyHCHQ-dyHy3j-dyHxcd-dyC1vn-dyHuhJ-7x2aPn\">Photo<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tom_lohdan\/\">Tom Lohdan\/Flickr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The White House is sending Congress an approximately $45 billion disaster aid request Friday that will fall short of demands from hurricane-slammed Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s according to congressional aides briefed on the request who insisted on anonymity in advance of the release.<\/p>\n<p>The request, President Donald Trump&#8217;s third since hurricanes slammed the Gulf Coast and Caribbean, would bring the total appropriated for hurricane relief close to $100 billion.<\/p>\n<p>But Friday&#8217;s measure won&#8217;t contain much money for Puerto Rico, as the administration awaits estimates. Gov. Ricardo Rossello has requested $94 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Texas and Florida are also sure to be disappointed. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott submitted a $61 billion request to Trump last month for Harvey-related damages, while the Florida congressional delegation has asked for $27 billion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The White House is sending Congress an approximately $45 billion disaster aid request Friday that will fall short &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":131879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24157,16],"tags":[33654,9746],"class_list":["post-131875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-american-news","category-news","tag-disaster-request","tag-white-house","mauthors-andrew-taylor","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}