The Trump administration on Wednesday sent a $29 billion request to aid hurricane recovery efforts and to combat recent wildfires in the west.

The bulk of the funding — $16 billion — is for “debt relief” for the insolvent national flood insurance program, which owes the Treasury more than $25 billion and is now dealing with hundreds of millions of dollars in new claims in the wake of three devastating hurricanes.

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