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Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) speaks to Sean Hannity on the Fox News Channel in the spin room after a vice-presidential debate in New York on Oct. 1. Photo by Ted Shaffrey / The Associated Press
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Tropical Storm Helene formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Sept. 24, its projected path already showing it making landfall at the eastern end of the Florida panhandle. By the next day, it had gained enough energy to become a hurricane.
That same day, Sept. 25, the House of Representatives voted on a budget bill that would fund the government for a few more months, out past the presidential election. It was a continuing resolution, meaning that agencies would continue to receive the money they were already getting. If they needed more? Well, that would have to wait.
One day after that, Helene made landfall as a Category 4 storm. Over the next few days, it scraped through the southeast, unloading the moisture it picked up in the Gulf and drowning communities in North Carolina and elsewhere.
On Oct. 2, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, whose department includes the Federal Emergency Management Agency, told reporters that — given the limits of the stopgap funding that had been approved — more would be needed to help the region fully recover.
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