"Gulf Coast Aid Will Be Siphoned From FEMA"

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WASHINGTON (AP) - An aid package to help the Gulf Coast rebuild after Hurricane Katrina will be siphoned from a dwindling FEMA disaster fund, leaving agency officials wondering Thursday whether they will need more money to help storm evacuees beyond next spring.

All but $5 billion of the $29 billion aid package, which won final congressional approval Thursday, will come from the Federal Emergency Management Agency's disaster relief fund. The fund had a $34.7 billion balance last week, meaning FEMA will have about $11 billion left to help move thousands of evacuated families from hotels into homes and for other assistance.

"I think we're going to have enough," FEMA Acting Director R. David Paulison told reporters. "We're watching it very closely."

FEMA spokeswoman Nicol Andrews later said President Bush probably will seek more money from Congress early next year to replenish the relief fund, which is chiefly for immediate aid for disaster victims and state and local governments.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20051222/D8ELISPO0.html

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1. I saw this morning that it was costing about 140,000 per trailer

house/mobile abode to purchase and set up. Mine was used and cost me prolly 15,000. Ahhh the way the govt does bidness. And then they wonder why there isn't enough to go around.