FEMA denied North Carolina's request for 100% funding for Hurricane Helene debris removal, continuing to cover 90% of costs. The decision follows initial full coverage and concerns about state spending.
Some who made the claim got the inaccurate information from an Oct.1 Federalist story that misleadingly said: “The Biden-Harris administration took more than a billion tax dollars that had been allocated to the agency responsible for American disaster relief and used it to offer services for illegal immigrants.”
Community organizers and airport tenants looking to help survivors in hard-hit western North Carolina started a social media page called the Runway Relief Project to share information about efforts to collect and fly donations of supplies where they’re needed.
