The president Joe Biden visited this sunday Florida to announce more than US$500 million in projects aimed at improving the resilience of the electrical network in the community devastated by the Hurricane Milton.
The White House reported that this visit came amid an increase in the frequency and cost of storms, putting pressure on federal funding for disaster relief.
“These investments are part of the commitment of the President to make long-term investments that protect, improve and update our nation’s electrical grid, especially in the face of extreme weather events,” said an official from the White House.
Biden advertisement $612 million in financing, in a context where almost 1.5 million customers face power outages. Of this amount, US$94 million will be intended for specific projects in Florida.
Biden will visit Germany on Friday
The American president will visit Germany next week, a government source indicated on Sunday in Berlinafter the president suspended a planned visit this week due to the Hurricane Milton.
Biden “comes to Berlin on Friday”, declared the source, specifying that the visit will last one day. The American president will meet with the head of the German governmentOlaf Scholzand the president Frank-Walter Steinmeieraccording to German media.
Biden He was scheduled for a state visit on Friday in Berlinwhere he was to meet on Saturday with Scholz, the French president, Emmanuel Macronand the British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer.
The four leaders were later to participate in an international summit of the allies of Ukraine in Ramstein, an important US base located in the southwest of the country, next to the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.
But the visit was postponed “due to the trajectory and expected strength of Hurricane Milton,” the agency said. White House.
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