Biden announces more than $600 million for electric grid resilience during visit to survey Hurricane Milton damage

President Joe Biden made yet another trip to a community devastated by a hurricane with his Sunday visit to Florida, where he announced more than half a billion dollars in projects for electric grid resilience, as costlier and more frequent storms continue to strain the federal government’s disaster-relief funding.

President Joe Biden made yet another trip to a community devastated by a hurricane with his Sunday visit to Florida, where he announced more than half a billion dollars in projects for electric grid resilience, as costlier and more frequent storms continue to strain the federal government’s disaster-relief funding. “I’m here in Florida for the second time in two weeks to survey the damage from another catastrophic storm, Hurricane Milton,” Biden said after an aerial tour of the storm’s damage in St. Petersburg. “Thankfully, the storm’s impact was not as cataclysmic as we had predicted.” But, he added, “for some individuals, it was cataclysmic.” Biden empathized with Florida residents who had lost everything, describing them as “heartbroken and exhausted, and their expenses are piling up.” He thanked local officials who were impacted personally by the storm, saying their work was a testament to “the resilience of the people of west Florida.” His visit came as the president and other leaders have urged Congress to pass additional funding for disaster-relief and small-business programs as extreme weather events this year have rapidly drained the government’s aid funds.