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US President Barack Obama has requested more than $60bn from Congress for response, recovery and repairs in the wake of "Superstorm" Sandy.
美国总统奥巴马请求国会拨款600多亿美元用于超级风暴桑迪的恢复重建工作。
Much of the New Jersey and New York shoreline was wrecked by Sandy The scale of the request was welcomed by the governors of the two worst-hit states, New York and New Jersey.
But the request fell short of the $80bn estimate of the total damage done in those states and in Connecticut.
The White House said the storm was on track to be the second or third most costly3 storm in US history.
Only Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Hurricane Andrew in 1992 caused more damage, Jeffrey Zients of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) wrote in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner.
Sandy has been blamed for more than 120 deaths, and many thousands of people are still unable to live in their flood-damaged homes.
No spending cuts
The presidential request will have to pass the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and the Democratic-led Senate before funds are made available.
It is expected to face scrutiny4 in Congress, where many fiscal5 conservatives are strongly opposed to increases in US federal spending.
Mr Obama's team proposed no spending cuts in conjunction with the funding request, saying the "sudden, urgent, unforeseen and temporary" nature of the disaster made the request allowable under disaster-relief laws.
In a statement, Governors Andrew Cuomo of New York and Chris Christie of New Jersey thanked Mr Obama for his "steadfast6 commitment of support" since the storm hit on 29 October.
They said the package would pay for "essential mitigation and prevention efforts that will better protect our region against the devastating7 impacts of future superstorms".
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