As cleanup work following Hurricane Helene continue, President Joe Biden vowed to continue providing total federal aid to Georgia and Florida, where over 200 people died on Thursday, surpassing the 200-person death toll.
During his notes, Biden quoted original President Jimmy Carter, himself a Georgia local who became the first U. S. leader to live to 100 years earlier this year, saying,” Great progress can be made when we persevere through tough issues”.
Biden continued,” This wind is extremely difficult for our nation. To all the initial firefighters, police soldiers, and individuals who ran toward harm, to all the individuals and families who had their lives and livelihoods torn off, we’ve got a lot of work ahead of us”.
Thursday marked Biden’s next morning surveying the wind damage, with the leader visiting a peach plantation near Valdosta, Georgia, following a similar halt in Tallahassee, Florida, earlier in the day.
On Wednesday, Biden took an aerial tour of flooding in Asheville, North Carolina, and Greenville, South Carolina, on Wednesday before receiving an operational briefing and visiting with first responders in Raleigh.
” In moments like this, it’s time to put politics aside”, he said during his Georgia remarks. There are neither Republicans nor Democrats present.
” I want you to know I see you, I hear you, I grieve with you, and I promise you we have your back”, the president continued. ” We’re going to stay until you’re restored”.
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Biden has approved 90 days of full federal assistance for search and rescue and debris removal in North Carolina and 90 days for both Florida and Georgia.
40, 000 people have requested federal disaster assistance, according to the White House, and more than$ 6 million has been distributed to survivors in the first week following the storm.