{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.budd.senate.gov/2025/09/24/senator-budd-applauds-dot-release-of-1-1-billion-in-disaster-aid-for-infrastructure-repairs-across-north-carolina/", "Senator Budd Applauds DOT Release of $1.1+ Billion in Disaster Aid for Infrastructure Repairs Across North Carolina", "2025-09-24", "2025", "2025-09", "Republican", "Senate", "NC", "Ted Budd", "B001305", "www.budd.senate.gov", "budd", "https://www.budd.senate.gov/category/news/press-releases/page/", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2014 U.S. Senator Ted Budd (R-N.C.) today applauded Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy and Federal Highway Administrator Sean McMaster\u2019s announcement of over $1.1 billion in federal relief grants to fund natural disaster recovery projects in North Carolina following Hurricane Helene and other storms dating back to 2020. These funds will support projects to repair roads, bridges, and drainage structures that have suffered significant damage due to flash flooding, landslides, heavy rainfall, tornadoes, rockfall, washouts, pipe blowouts, bridge collapses, and downed trees.\n\n\u201cI am grateful to Secretary Duffy and Administrator McMaster for their leadership in getting needed federal aid out the door and back to the state of North Carolina as we work to repair our damaged infrastructure as a result of Hurricane Helene and other severe storms from the past several years. President Trump\u2019s Department of Transportation is following through on its promises and unlocking vital emergency relief to the Old North State, including aid that has been tied up dating back to the Biden administration,\u201d said Senator Budd.\n\nBACKGROUND\n\nApproved federal grant applications issued by the U.S. Department of Transportation include:\n\nHURRICANE HELENE\n\n$1,150,000,000 \u2013 Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Emergency Relief Program Grant\n\nRestore damaged areas of the Federal-Aid highway system to its pre-disaster condition.\n\n$12,278,841 \u2013 FHWA Emergency Relief Program Grant\n\nRepair public forest roads within national forests in North Carolina damaged by heavy rainfall.\n\n$1,749,785 \u2013 FHWA Emergency Relief Program Grant\n\nRepair drainage facilities at the W. Kerr Scott Dam impacted by severe flooding.\n\n$90,000 \u2013 FHWA Emergency Relief Program Grant\n\nRestore damages to bridges, bridge approaches, and multiple roads and trails on Tribal lands of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians impacted by heavy rain and flash floods.\n\nHURRICANE DEBBY\n\n$346,426 \u2013 FHWA Emergency Relief Program Grant\n\nRestore roads and drainage structures that were damaged by flooding, erosion, and debris within national forests in North Carolina.\n\nJanuary 9, 2024 \u2013 Rain Storm\n\n$150,000 \u2013 FHWA Emergency Relief Program Grant\n\nRepairs for roadway templates and drainage structures within national forests in North Carolina.\n\nTROPICAL STORM FRED\n\n$1,679,918 \u2013 FHWA Emergency Relief Program Grant\n\nRepairs for transportation systems within national forests in North Carolina.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:10:29Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.budd.senate.gov/2025/09/24/senator-budd-applauds-dot-release-of-1-1-billion-in-disaster-aid-for-infrastructure-repairs-across-north-carolina/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5467170160263777, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}