Did Hurricane Milton just turn FEMA funding into a deciding issue in Florida's federal elections?
Several members of Florida’s congressional delegation want Congress back in Washington to approve new funding for Hurricane Milton relief. That includes several lawmakers who last month voted against a budget deal to keep the government open.
That may be a sign of how the hurricane could impact the political climate in Florida ahead of the election just as storm surge has reshaped the state’s coast.
Lawmakers representing regions especially hurt by the storm, which made landfall Wednesday as a Category 3 hurricane, voiced a willingness, and in some cases an expressed desire, to return to Washington and approve extra funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
U.S. Rep. Jared...
