Survivors of an extraordinary string of disasters throughout the country have hung in limbo for months as Washington politicians sparred over the specifics of a multibillion-dollar plan to send extra aid their way
Survivors of an extraordinary string of disasters throughout the states and territories have hung in limbo for six months as Washington politicians sparred over the specifics of a multibillion-dollar plan to send extra aid their way.
For many American farmers and ranchers, the delay in aid means they’ll miss an entire year of production — and income. So in the single largest sum the bill would provide, Congress will give the Department of Agriculture more than $3 billion to help farmers who lost crops or couldn’t plant at all. And lawmakers are really leaving the details up to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, allowing him to give the money as grants to states and territories, as well as directly to farmers.
In recent decades, the National Park Service deemed the volcano’s continuous — but much calmer — lava flow to be controlled enough for families with kids to make ranger-supervised treks to view the glowing molten substance in the darkness of night. Now, Volcanoes National Park is all crater and ash, and the surrounding community is still struggling to recover amid poor air quality and many indefinitely closed roads.
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