Senate Hearing on Improving Disaster Recovery and Resiliency

• •The CDBG-DR program has never been permanently authorized by Congress and currently relies on individual Supplemental Appropriations Acts.
• •Since 1993, there have been 39 separate supplemental appropriations for the CDBG-DR program.
• •The program has provided nearly $90 billion in recovery funding over the last 30 years.
• •There are currently 62 grantees managing 130 active grants worth a total of $67 billion.
• •The U.S. experienced 22 extreme weather and climate-related disaster events in 2020, each causing over $1 billion in losses.
• •The American Jobs Plan proposes $50 billion specifically for resiliency activities.
• •The current ad hoc funding approach often forces grantees to manage multiple grants simultaneously with conflicting rules, leading to delays in aid delivery.
• •The subcommittee is actively drafting bipartisan legislation to authorize the program and streamline assistance.

The committee is working on bipartisan legislation to permanently authorize the CDBG-DR program, which has distributed nearly $90 billion over 30 years, to speed up how federal disaster aid reaches homeowners, renters, and small businesses.

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