President Trump Promises All-Out Response to Hurricane Florence

“President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the federal government would spare no expense in responding to the likely damage from Hurricane Florence,” Reuters reports. “Whatever it takes, we’re going to do it,” the President said. 

President Trump and FEMA have urged all Americans in the storm’s path to take any necessary precautions, including evacuation where necessary. “This has an opportunity of being a very devastating storm,” FEMA Administrator Brock Long said. 

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“Remember those warnings of an economic implosion if Donald Trump was elected President? Well, instead, the economy has broken out of the 2% growth doldrums from 2009-2016, and Barack Obama is suddenly elbowing his way back into the public debate to claim credit,” The Wall Street Journal editorial board writes.

“The Department of Transportation is waiving federal trucking rules to ease the flow of gasoline and other fuels into the Hurricane Florence impact zone that extends from South Carolina to Maryland,” John Siciliano reports for the Washington Examiner. “The fuel situation is one of the first situations that goes short during an emergency,” said Alex Keenan, Emergency Coordinator for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

“Vice President Pence will go to Atlanta on Thursday to review preparations for Hurricane Florence, the Category 4 storm that is expected to make landfall later this week,” Tal Axelrod reports in The Hill. “It was projected Wednesday that Florence would shift slightly to the south and possibly hit Georgia as well” as North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia.

On Wednesday, President Trump signed an order authorizing a procedure that will “deter foreign countries or people from meddling in U.S. elections, creating a mechanism to automatically impose sanctions when intelligence agencies detect cyberattacks” S.A. Miller reports in The Washington Times.