October 11, 2024: How to spend $9 billion in 8 days

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🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Just eight days into the fiscal year, FEMA has already spent $9 billion of its annual $20 billion disaster fund. Blame Hurricanes Helene and Milton — but also our era, when major natural disasters are happening with greater frequency. Can America afford the age of the superstorm? And how is Washington adapting to meet the challenge? Climate finance editor Tom Frank from POLITICO’s E&E News joins Playbook co-author Eugene Daniels to discuss.

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0:00.0	Presented by BP.
0:05.4	Hey, good morning. I'm Playbook co-author Eugene Daniels. It is Friday, October 11th. Here is what's driving the day.
0:12.5	Bringing out the former presidents. Vice President Harris now has both former President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton about to hit or already hitting the trail for her.
0:24.5	President Obama was in Pittsburgh reiterating his argument that he made at the DNC that Trump is selfish.
0:31.1	He said, quote, there's absolutely no evidence that this man thinks about anybody but himself and says that he has not stopped whining about his
0:38.9	problems since he rode down his golden escalator nine years ago.
0:44.0	He hit Donald Trump for his conspiracy theories and, as he put it, his sells pitches of things
0:50.4	like golden sneakers or this $100,000 watch that the former president is selling.
0:55.3	With Obama, there's obviously black voters and younger voters that the Harris campaign is going for.
1:01.3	President Clinton is looking to appeal to those rule voters.
1:04.8	Those are folks who Vice President Harris is performing worse than some of the last few Democratic nominees.
1:12.0	Clinton's going to start in Georgia, Sunday and Monday, and then is expected to do a bus tour
1:17.9	in North Carolina depending on the recovery efforts there from the hurricanes.
1:22.6	I'd expect both the men and probably their wives, the former First Ladies and Secretary of State,
1:27.7	to hit the road as well. This is going to be all hands on deck for the next few weeks.
1:33.9	Also, don't miss this week's episode of Playbook Deep Dive. Rachel caught up with Republican
1:38.8	strategist and publisher of the bulwark, Sarah Longwell, in her downtown Washington, D.C. offices.
1:45.2	They talked about what issues swing voters care about, how that varies from state to state,
1:49.7	but mostly they just kept coming back to one thing.
1:53.2	The biggest and arguably for Sarah Longwell, the most profound question in our politics today.
1:59.3	That episode is out this morning, and you can find it wherever you get your pods.
2:04.6	And Hurricane Milton has moved on, and it wasn't as bad as folks thought it might be,
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