White House Readies $5.9B Request For Harvey Recovery Aid
The White House is preparing an initial $5.9 billion package in Harvey aid, a first down payment to ensure recovery efforts over the next few weeks are adequately funded.
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The White House is preparing an initial $5.9 billion package in Harvey aid, a first down payment to ensure recovery efforts over the next few weeks are adequately funded.
A stay issued Thursday by Justice Samuel Alito is the second time the court has told Texas to wait on voting maps that a lower court says are fouled by racial gerrymandering.
The Vice President says more than 300,000 people have registered for disaster aid.
Energy Department Secretary Rick Perry has moved to tap the strategic petroleum reserves to help relieve the gasoline shortages due to storm-related refinery shutdowns in south Texas.
Vice President Mike Pence is getting a chance to survey Harvey's wreckage and visit with Texas storm victims close to where Harvey first slammed ashore. Pence traveled to the tiny coastal town of Rockport today.
Harvey's devastation is testing Houston Democratic Mayor Sylvester Turner and Republican Gov. Greg Abbott -- two leaders whose personal styles are as divergent as their politics.
A federal judge has temporarily blocked most of Texas' tough new "sanctuary cities" law allowing police to inquire about people's immigration status during routine interactions such as traffic stops.
As historic floods wreak havoc across the Gulf Coast, northeastern Republicans recalled the days after Sandy ravaged their region in 2012, and Texas Republicans lawmakers overwhelmingly opposed a disaster relief package.
Confronting Harvey's fury, President Donald Trump is making an all-out push to show the federal government's responsiveness to the massive storm that has lashed the Texas coast and caused catastrophic flooding.
President Trump says 'all options are on the table' after the latest North Korean missile launch over Japan.
President Donald Trump has promised federal assistance to storm-ravaged parts of Texas, insisting Congress will act swiftly on a multibillion-dollar Hurricane Harvey recovery package as the government signaled current funds will be exhausted in the next few weeks.
President Donald Trump sought to showcase the federal government's response to Hurricane Harvey in a tweetstorm of his own, marveling over its size like a TV host and announcing a visit to Texas.
"We are coordinating logistics with state and local officials, and once details are finalized, we will let you know," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
The suspension will last 14 days from the day Governor Abbott issued his 30-countywide Disaster Declaration.
The process to determine the fate of Confederate monuments in Dallas is just beginning, but many city leaders have already made up their minds. "We have made a decision to have them come down," said Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway.
