The Obama administration has asked Congress to approve $60.4 billion in emergency funds to help East Coast states recover and rebuild from Hurricane Sandy’s heavy blows and to take longer-range steps to guard against massive damage from future storms.
The supplemental funding request, which the White House sent to Capitol Hill on the evening of Dec. 7, includes $47 billion for relatively immediate relief, repairs and rebuilding and $13 billion to help the states and their localities put in place permanent mitigation.