Several months after relief funding was passed for the farmers who were hurt by the historically-damaging Hurricane Helene, those impacted got an answer to when they'll see their approved money from the federal government.
The hurricane, which killed 227 people across multiple states, swept through Georgia in September. It left weeks-long power outages, destroyed property and tens of thousands of damaged farmland in its wake.
Some 82 days later, the U.S. Senate passed the American Relief Act of 2025, bipartisan legislation that approved a $21 billion dollar disaster funding package poised to bring relief to tens of thousands of farmers and producers whose crops and products were devastated by the hurricane.
But nearly five months later, farmers haven't seen any of that money despite multiple requests for "swift disbursement" by one of the disaster supplemental bill package leaders, Democratic Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff.
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