{"id":24510,"date":"2024-10-01T10:07:58","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T14:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&p=24510"},"modified":"2024-11-18T14:36:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T19:36:34","slug":"sen-jon-ossoff-rep-austin-scott-lead-bipartisan-bicameral-push-for-agricultural-disaster-relief-funding-after-hurricane-helene","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-jon-ossoff-rep-austin-scott-lead-bipartisan-bicameral-push-for-agricultural-disaster-relief-funding-after-hurricane-helene\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Jon Ossoff, Rep. Austin Scott Lead Bipartisan, Bicameral Push for Agricultural Disaster Relief Funding after Hurricane Helene"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cFederal agricultural disaster assistance is essential to help our States and our Nation recover,\u201d Ossoff, Scott, and colleagues wrote to Congressional leadership<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tifton, Ga.<\/strong> \u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff and Congressman Austin Scott (GA-08) are leading a bipartisan push for disaster relief funding to prevent deep and lasting economic damage to the agricultural industry in the southeastern United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, Sen. Ossoff and Congressman Scott, alongside Georgia\u2019s entire Congressional Delegation, led a bipartisan, bicameral group of 34 lawmakers from Southeastern states, urging Congressional Leadership to work with them and the Biden Administration to ensure disaster relief resources are made available to agricultural producers following the devastating impacts of Hurricane Helene for agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo prevent deep and lasting economic damage to the agricultural industry in the southeastern United States, it is imperative that Congress make appropriations as soon as possible upon the completion of damage assessments to fully fund unmet agricultural disaster relief needs in our states and across the nation,\u201d Sen. Ossoff, Rep. Scott, and colleagues wrote to Congressional Leadership. <\/strong>\u201cFarmers and growers nationwide, not only those damaged by Helene, have now faced multiple growing seasons without sufficient federal support. Our constituents are counting on us to act swiftly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Ossoff and Rep. Scott are joined by Sens. Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Reps. Earl L. \u201cBuddy\u201d Carter (GA-01),\u00a0Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (GA-02), Drew Ferguson (GA-03), Hank Johnson (GA-04), Nikema Williams (GA-05), Rich McCormick (GA-06), Lucy McBath (GA-07), Andrew Clyde (GA-09), Mike Collins (GA-10), Barry Loudermilk (GA-11), Rick Allen (GA-12), David Scott (GA-13), Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA-14), Darren Soto (FL-09), Maxwell Frost (FL-10), Kathy Castor (FL-14), Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (FL-20), Jared Moskowitz (FL-23), Frederica Wilson (FL-24), Morgan McGarvey (KY-03), Don Davis (NC-01), Deborah Ross (NC-02), Greg Murphy (NC-03), Valerie P. Foushee (NC-04), Kathy Manning (NC-06), Dan Bishop (NC-08), Chuck Edwards (NC-11), Alma Adams (NC-12) Wiley Nickel (NC-13), Jeff Jackson (NC-14), and Diana Harshbarger (TN-01).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida as a devastating Category 4 hurricane before making its way through Georgia and downgrading to a tropical storm affecting South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee \u2014 with deep, disastrous impacts across agricultural sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFederal agricultural disaster assistance is essential to help our States and our Nation recover. We urge you to work with the administration to ensure disaster relief resources are made available to our growers. Thank you for your support, and we look forward to working with you to secure these critical resources,\u201d Sen. Ossoff, Rep. Scott, and the group wrote.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here<\/a> to read Sen. Ossoff and Rep. Scott\u2019s bipartisan, bicameral letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cFederal agricultural disaster assistance is essential to help our States and our Nation recover,\u201d Ossoff, Scott, and colleagues wrote to Congressional leadership Tifton, Ga. \u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff and Congressman Austin Scott (GA-08) are leading a bipartisan push for disaster relief funding to prevent deep and lasting economic damage to the agricultural industry in the […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24510","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/24510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/24510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24894,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/24510\/revisions\/24894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}