WASHINGTON, DC-Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate told a House subcommittee yesterday that the federal sequester would not result in any funding cuts to victims of Hurricane Sandy.
Fugate in testimony before the House homeland security appropriations subcommittee said FEMA programs for individual Sandy victims would not be affected by the $928 million cut to the government's main disaster fund initiated by the automatic spending cuts of the sequester. He added that relief aid to municipalities and hospitals would be unaffected as well.
FEMA issued a report which stated that even with the sequester funding cut, the program will likely have $2.5 billion unspent by the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30. See story in The Record.
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