美国总统唐纳德·特朗普周五表示，应该州两名出现在选票上的共和党人请求，他在前一天批准了1.84亿美元的额外联邦紧急事务管理局（FEMA）飓风救灾资金，用于佛罗里达州狭长地带。
President Donald Trump said Friday he approved $184 million in additional FEMA hurricane relief for Florida’s Panhandle a day earlier at the request of two Republicans on the state’s ballot.
“他们打电话来。他们老缠着我。他们总是要钱，”特朗普在描述众议员拜伦·唐纳兹和参议员阿什利·穆迪的请求时说。“所以他们给我打了两次电话。我说，‘听着，就告诉他们我不在。’”“我不知道狭长地带是怎么回事。我能拿那里98%的选票，”特朗普说。“这简直是最不可思议的事。”
“They call up. They bug me all the time. They’re always looking for money,” Trump said, describing requests from Rep. Byron Donalds and Sen. Ashley Moody. “So they call me twice. I said, ‘Listen, just tell them I’m not in.’”“I don’t know what it is with the Panhandle. I get 98 percent of the vote,” Trump said. “It’s like the most incredible thing.”
他补充道：“发生什么了？就下了点小雨。有点毛毛雨。我就把钱给他们了。”这笔资金旨在帮助受“伊赛亚斯”飓风影响的个人，该飓风于10月6日至12日袭击了佛罗里达州西北部。资金涵盖临时住房和房屋维修补助、无保险财产损失低息贷款及其他恢复重建项目。这场二级飓风造成至少4人死亡，并导致数十万人断电。
He added: “What happened? It rained a little bit. There was a little drizzle. And I gave it to them.”The money is meant to help individuals affected by Hurricane Isaias, which hit Northwest Florida Oct. 6-12. The funding covers grants for temporary housing and home repairs, low-interest loans for uninsured property losses and other recovery programs. The Category 2 storm killed at least four people and left hundreds of thousands without power.
作为共和党州长提名人的唐纳兹在特朗普登台前对现场观众表示，他周四曾通过电话向总统请求这笔资金。
Donalds, the Republican nominee for governor, told the crowd before Trump took the stage that he had asked the president for the money by phone Thursday.
“我们需要联邦紧急事务管理局批准针对狭长地带民众的个人援助，”唐纳兹说他当时对特朗普表示。唐纳兹说，特朗普告诉他已经搞定了。“两个小时后，狭长地带民众的个人援助就获批签署了。”共和党籍州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯于10月15日请求重大灾难声明，寻求为15个县提供公共援助，为8个县提供个人援助。联邦紧急事务管理局记录显示，公共援助请求于10月27日获批。特朗普两天后修订声明，将这8个县纳入个人援助范围。
“We need the sign-off for individual assistance from FEMA for the people in the Panhandle,” Donalds said he told Trump. Trump told him it was done, Donalds said. “And it was signed off two hours later for the people in the Panhandle.”Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis requested a major disaster declaration Oct. 15, seeking public assistance for 15 counties and individual assistance for eight. Federal Emergency Management Agency records show the public assistance request was approved Oct. 27. Trump amended the declaration two days later to include individual assistance for the eight counties.
根据联邦应急管理局（FEMA）的记录，截至本周，特朗普政府批准灾害救济的时间表各不相同，目前有13份灾害声明请求正在处理中。其中，在佛罗里达州提出申请之前提交的四份请求仍在审批中——包括印第安纳州和内布拉斯加州8月份的请求，以及堪萨斯州和华盛顿州9月份的请求。其他几份则是对早前拒绝决定的上诉。联邦应急管理局和白宫暂未回应置评请求。
Approved disaster relief timelines have varied under Trump. FEMA records list 13 declaration requests in process as of this week. Four of them filed before Florida’s are still pending — including August requests from Indiana and Nebraska and September requests from Kansas and Washington. Several others are appeals of earlier denials. FEMA and the White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
尽管特朗普没有将佛罗里达州的灾害救济与周二选举的结果挂钩，但他在全国各地的竞选集会上表示，如果他在助选的州里共和党失利，可能会让该州失去联邦资金。
While he didn’t tie Florida’s disaster relief to the outcome of Tuesday’s elections, Trump has said in campaign stops across the country that Republican losses in the state where he was stumping could cost them federal money.
本月初，在堪萨斯州帕克城的一次集会上，他说如果民主党提名人亚当·汉密尔顿赢得参议员席位，他将不予批准燃油豁免。
At a rally in Park City, Kansas, earlier this month, he said if Democratic nominee Adam Hamilton won the Senate seat, he would withhold a fuel waiver.
特朗普说：“我还给了堪萨斯州一项豁免，允许其全年销售E15乙醇汽油。有罗杰·马歇尔在参议院，我们将把全年销售E15乙醇汽油永久化。但如果亚当·汉密尔顿当选，我就不批了。”在北卡罗来纳州皮特-格林维尔机场的一次竞选活动中，特朗普将勒琼营水污染赔偿问题与共和党控制国会挂钩。
“I also gave Kansas a waiver to sell E15 all year round. And with Roger Marshall in the Senate, we will make year-round E15 permanent,” Trump said. “But if Adam Hamilton is in, I’m not doing it.”Trump tied Camp Lejeune water contamination settlements to Republican control of Congress during a campaign event at Pitt-Greenville Airport in North Carolina.
“如果我们赢得众议院和参议院，我将指示司法部尽快解决所有剩余的合法索赔，”他说，随后补充道：“如果我们不赢，就没有钱。如果我们赢了，你们就能拿到钱。”
“If we win the House and the Senate, I am directing the Department of Justice to settle all remaining legitimate claims as soon as possible,” he said, adding later: “If we don’t win, there’s no money. If we do win, you’re getting it.”
9月，在北卡罗来纳州加斯托尼亚的一次集会上，特朗普表示该州正在等待除已花费的20亿美元之外的额外“海伦”飓风资金。“现在如果迈克尔输了，我就不发这笔钱，好吗？”他说，指的是共和党参议员提名人迈克尔·沃特利，随后又补充道：“不，我只是开玩笑。你们会拿到钱的。”本周早些时候，看起来周五在代托纳比奇的停留可能是特朗普大选前最后一次线下集会，因为原定周末在堪萨斯州和爱荷华州的集会已被取消。
In September, at a rally in Gastonia, North Carolina, Trump said the state was awaiting additional Hurricane Helene funding beyond the $2 billion already spent. “Now if Michael loses, I’m not sending it, OK?” he said, referring to Republican Senate nominee Michael Whatley, before adding: “No, I’m only kidding. You’re getting it.”Earlier in the week, it looked like Friday’s Daytona stop might have been Trump’s last in-person rally of the election following the cancellation of weekend rallies in Kansas and Iowa.
但在这些活动取消、改为冲刺阶段的电话集会不到一天后，堪萨斯州和爱荷华州的活动又被重新安排在周日举行。
But less than a day after they were canceled in favor of closing-stretch tele-rallies, the Kansas and Iowa events were rescheduled for Sunday.