{"id":385034,"date":"2023-02-09T06:06:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T20:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=385034"},"modified":"2023-02-09T06:06:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T20:06:29","slug":"biden-lowers-nmis-cost-share-for-typhoon-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/biden-lowers-nmis-cost-share-for-typhoon-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden lowers NMI\u2019s cost  share for typhoon funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_385036\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-385036\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Edith-E.-DeLeonGuerrero11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-385036\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Edith-E.-DeLeonGuerrero11-300x155.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-385036\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edith E. DeLeonGuerrero(<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>U.S. President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has reduced the CNMI\u2019s financial burden by nearly $1 million by increasing the federal government\u2019s cost-share in new disaster assistance to 90%. This effectively means the CNMI would need to only foot 10% of the amount in order to tap this new disaster assistance related to 2018\u2019s Typhoon Mangkhut.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Arnold I. Palacios released the following statement: \u201cWe are thankful to President Biden for making additional federal disaster assistance to help recover damage caused by [Typhoon Mangkhut], which especially affected the island of Rota. The savings covered under this declaration, along with other federal aid, helps the CNMI address its financial challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senate President Edith E. DeLeon Guerrero (D-Saipan) said that this development is absolutely the best news for the day. \u201cWe appreciate this financial relief from Washington,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator Deanne Criswell announced in a FEMA news release yesterday that Biden made additional disaster assistance available to the CNMI to supplement recovery efforts in the areas affected by Typhoon Mangkhut from Sept. 10 to 11, 2018. Typhoon Mangkhut caused widespread destruction on Rota in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Criswell said that Biden authorized the federal cost-share for Public Assistance, Hazard Mitigation and Other Needs Assistance to increase from 75% to 90%. This action reduces the Commonwealth\u2019s financial responsibilities by nearly $1 million, according to FEMA.<\/p>\n<p>DeLeon Guerrero said that every penny less that the CNMI does not need to pay out or match is a huge help, most especially in the face of the CNMI\u2019s current financial situation.<\/p>\n<p>DeLeon Guerrero said they are working hard to validate and make sense of all the federal and local funds the CNMI has received and or generated, expended, got reimbursed, or pending reimbursement for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPennies do add up to thousands and millions of dollars that the CNMI is desperately in need of to address the looming fiscal cliff,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2022, Patrick Guerrero of the Public Assistance Office said the CNMI has been awarded $6.7 million in federal funds to help it recover from Typhoon Mangkhut.<\/p>\n<p>Guerrerro also disclosed that the CNMI received under his watch $77.5 million for hazard mitigation projects related to Super Typhoon Soudelor in 2015, Super Typhoon Yutu and Typhoon Mangkhut in 2018, and the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has reduced the CNMI\u2019s financial burden by nearly $1&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":385036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[257],"class_list":["post-385034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-nmi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}