Faced with natural disasters in the United States, Joe Biden wants his infrastructure plan
US President Joe Biden discussing the government's response to Storm Ida that hit the Northeastern United States this Thursday, September 2, 2021 in Washington.
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Destructive winds in Louisiana, unprecedented flooding in the northeast that has so far killed 28 people in three states, and giant fires out of control in California.
The United States is facing a series of natural disasters this late summer.
President Joe Biden commented on these phenomena.
He is asking for support for his infrastructure renovation plan.
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It is an apocalyptic picture, but ultimately quite realistic, that the American president draws up, according to our correspondent in Washington,
Guillaume Naudin
.
In detailing his administration's response to the damage caused by Hurricane Ida in Louisiana and the northeast, as well as the giant fires in California, Joe Biden does not fail to point out that these extreme phenomena, linked to climate change, are more and more frequent and violent.
A plan to adapt its infrastructure to climate change
For him, his country must adapt to this new situation in order to be prepared.
To that end, its response is its infrastructure renovation or replacement plan.
A plan discussed in Congress, and often contested by the Republican opposition and by those less convinced of its majority.
“
A hurricane doesn't ask you if you're a Republican or a Democrat,
” he explains, and everyone is concerned.
These more frequent and extreme phenomena remind us that this is not about politics.
Hurricane Ida did not differentiate between Democrats and Republicans, rural and city dwellers.
Destruction is everywhere.
It is a matter of life and death and we are all in the same boat.
Joe Biden facing climate disasters: "It's a matter of life and death and we are all in the same boat"
Guillaume Naudin
The plan has passed in the Senate, but not yet in the Democratic-majority House of Representatives.
Joe Biden wants to accelerate this plan to $ 1.2 trillion.
Gathered in New York, a largely democratic city, the elected officials of the state which received on Wednesday September 1 as
much rain in one day as during the entire month of September
, do not say anything else.
Chuck Schumer, senator from New York and leader of the Democratic majority in the Senate will therefore have plenty of time to talk to other elected officials about what his city has just suffered.
More evacuations in the aftermath of storm Ida
Today, the sun is back and it's time to assess the damage in the American Northeast, says our correspondent in New York,
Loubna Anaki
.
In Queens, the Bronx or Brooklyn: a large number of buildings or houses with cellars still flooded.
The inhabitants have set up pumps which empty the water little by little.
The metro that had been flooded and suspended overnight resumed.
But there are still major disruptions and it is the same on the commuter trains.
In some counties in New York State, relief workers are still evacuating people stranded in their homes by the water.
A car still under water in Mamaroneck in New York State this Thursday, September 2 after the torrential rains of Storm Ida.
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