Mick Mulvaney on Irma: The Federal Government Is Going to Step Up

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MULVANEY: "I haven’t heard that $200 billion number until you just mentioned it, but it is going to be a significant amount of money. Yes, the federal government is going to step up. Keep in mind those numbers that you hear oftentimes are the total damage numbers, not, for example, the uninsured loss or things that are covered by federal programs. So it is really too early for a bunch of different reasons to start focusing on specific numbers. What we’re going to do is this: because of the action of the House and Senate, the White House helped with last week, on getting supplemental appropriations for FEMA, there looks to be plenty of money in FEMA for roughly the next month and a half or so, sometimes in mid-October. At that time I think it would be appropriate to look our handover and see what money FEMA would need to get through this medium term, maybe the end of the year."