The administration specifically cut the funds to fix these specific levees, in order to specifically divert that Corps money to Iraq, despite urgent warnings and predictions of catastrophic disaster if the levees were breeched. The administration specifically cancelled the Clinton-backed flood control program to preserve and restore the wetlands between New Orleans and the gulf, instead specifically opening parts of that buffer zone for development.
Bush Cut FEMA Funding, Levee Funding,
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3 responses to “Bush Cut FEMA Funding, Levee Funding,”
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Congress sets funding levels, not the White House.
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Congress appropriated the money – Bush moved it.
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