Louisiana, recently awarded more than $400 million in federal aid to recover from August and March floods, says its need is much larger and has increased an earlier request for federal repair and recovery funding.
Gov. John Bel Edwards (D), in an Oct. 20 letter to President Obama, welcomed $438 million in Housing and Urban Development disaster-relief block grants it was awarded a week earlier, but, citing updated estimates, requested an additional $4 billion.