DeLauro Renews Call for Emergency Disaster Supplemental

Today, House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) released a statement renewing calls for a comprehensive disaster relief package following news that the Small Business Administration (SBA) had exhausted funds for new disaster loans:

"For the last year, I have consistently called for a comprehensive emergency supplemental in response to several disasters - from Hurricanes Helene and Milton, to Connecticut flooding and other localized extreme weather events fueled by climate change, to wildfires, to the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. The SBA's funds for disaster loans are now exhausted while small businesses and communities across the country still face the impact of these events. While we provided $20 billion for FEMA in the funding bill we passed at the end of September to ensure that they could provide immediate assistance, it is clear now that more is needed. It is far past time for Speaker Johnson to agree to a comprehensive disaster package to help American families, farms, businesses, and communities recover."

While the SBA has exhausted funds for its disaster loan program, its loan application portal remains open, as well as SBA disaster centers across the country. The agency will continue to accept new loan applications and ready borrowers to get their disaster loans as soon as funds are available. You can find the application for SBA's disaster loan program here. If you require relief from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), you can find more information here.