What are politicians saying about Hurricane Florence?
How valid are their comments? We'll explore four statements to see what evidence there is to support these claims.
Did Walker vote against disaster relief?
As Hurricane Florence was gearing up to hit
"Our current Representative has voted against disaster relief on multiple occasions and has not held this administration accountable for taking
The article said Walker voted against disaster relief twice last year following hurricanes Harvey, Maria and Irma. The article did not specify which bills Walker voted against, but his communications director
One such vote, taken on
In an op-ed in the
On
Walker also voted in favor of another
As far as Watt's second claim goes, PolitiFact has confirmed that the Trump administration transferred
The Trump administration has said the transferred money was not taken out of
The Watts campaign did not respond to multiple emailed requests for comment.
State Rep.
In his tweet, Richardson cited an article from NC Policy Watch, the news arm of the left-leaning
"But in 2011, lawmakers cut off funding to the
This is true. After
But the 2018 state budget, which legislators passed in June over a veto from Gov.
What stinks more: hogs or humans?
After a devastating hog lagoon flood in
State Senator
"Great article by the
The article aims to divert attention away from hogs and on to water treatment plants, which the pork council says spill more sewage and affect a larger number of North Carolinians than overflowing hog lagoons do. It also points out that water treatment plants have spills during regular storms.
Five hog lagoons have been damaged in the hurricane, according to the
Spilled waste from these lagoons can be toxic. Hog manure contains pathogens including salmonella and E. coli that have a potential to spread.
As for the municipal water treatment plants in the state, they are causing a problem as well.
About 5.2 million gallons of partly treated wastewater has spilled into the
As of
In addition, 109,200 gallons of sewage spilling into rivers in
Nearly half of the state's residents have a private septic tank. Floodwaters not only move solid waste across the area, but it can also pick up animal carcasses -- like the 5,500 pigs and 3.4 million chickens and turkeys that have died so far in this storm.
At the end of the day, any feces, human or animal, in flooded areas is not a good thing.
The rainy day fund
Where does hurricane relief money come from? Some of it comes from the federal government and donations. But states also have "rainy day funds" to help during disasters.
"This is true. As a percentage of the budget, the
Money from this
The Insider's
But some states do have much larger rainy day funds. The state of
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