Overview

• Trump said he authorized nearly $32 million for North Carolina for July flooding tied to Tropical Depression Chantal, nearly $30 million for Wisconsin after August storms, $5.7 million for Kansas, and $500,000 for the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Tribe in South Dakota.
• He said the Wisconsin approval followed a conversation with Sen. Ron Johnson and that he informed North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein after requests from Sen. Ted Budd and other Republicans.
• The announcements came after public pressure over slow FEMA reimbursements, with Budd threatening to stall Department of Homeland Security nominees and Kristi Noem later announcing $12 million in FEMA grants to North Carolina.
• An Associated Press analysis this week found the administration is taking more than a month on average to approve disaster declarations, compared with less than two weeks in the 1990s and early 2000s.
• Trump unveiled the decisions on Truth Social, highlighting his past electoral wins in the states and, in his Wisconsin post, repeating the false claim that he carried the state in 2020.