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...generosity of a united country" might cost, but economists estimate that Katrina's final price tag could easily top $200 billion. While frugal Republicans like Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Arizona Representative Jeff Flake (one of 11 members of the House to vote against the President's relief bill) instinctively called for budget cuts to offset the cost of the recovery effort, few cuts seem politically realistic. And much to the dismay of many of his colleagues, House majority leader Tom DeLay proclaimed that the G.O.P. had already trimmed most of the fat from the federal budget...
Back on the ground, the Administration and Congress have had to prove they are at least attempting to mind the store. To help win passage of the $51.8 billion relief bill, Congress allocated $15 million to the Department of Homeland Security to closely monitor the spending, a sum DHS inspector general Richard Skinner termed "a good start." His office, along with the White House Office of Management and Budget, is required to give Congress weekly briefings on how the money is being spent. The first such report spanned 10 spreadsheet-packed, rather puzzling pages--including a two-page glossary--breaking...
...independent czar to oversee the entire reconstruction operation, Democrats and Republicans alike fear it may be as poorly managed as the initial response to the storm. FEMA's track record before Katrina isn't too encouraging: during last year's $2 billion cleanup of Hurricane Frances, millions of relief dollars ended up in the hands of residents in the largely unaffected area around Miami...
...contracts for cleanup projects approved in Washington. Numerous victims of Hurricane Katrina have had trouble applying for assistance, whether online or on the telephone, though bandwidth and staffing have been greatly increased in recent days. One of three Carnival Cruise Lines ships that was chartered to house thousands of relief workers and possibly evacuees for at least six months, at a cost of around $220 million, was still docked in Mobile, Ala., most of last week and empty, as Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana jockeyed for the vessel. More ominously, in the wake of the horrifying discovery of 34 bodies...
...snag was that after the dealership had come up with the idea of filling each trailer with donations of food and clothing, FEMA informed Unger that rules stipulated that each trailer had to arrive empty. Instead, Unger is sending the supplies down by tractor trailers to church groups doing relief work in the area...