disaster relief

noun

: money to help rebuild an area after a disaster

The state is asking for federal disaster relief.

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Trumpian politics means your state doesn't get any disaster relief unless your leaders agree to extremist, right-wing policy changes. —

Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025 The claims wrongly conflated FEMA’s disaster relief fund with a different program meant to help homeless people, USA TODAY reported. —

Chris Mueller, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025 The role also places Noem in charge of FEMA — a part of DHS— which Trump has proposed eliminating to force states to do more disaster relief independently. —

Stephen Neukam, Axios, 25 Jan. 2025 Since 2010, World Central Kitchen has helped with frontline disaster relief in Paradise, California, Gaza, Ukraine and countries all over the world. —

Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for disaster relief

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