Hi, it’s Deborah.

This week marks one year since Hurricane Helene struck North Carolina.

North Carolinians are strong and resilient people, and I saw that firsthand when I visited Ashe, Avery, and Watauga counties during the August recess to learn about the recovery efforts in the wake of Hurricane Helene.

Even in the face of Trump’s reckless disaster recovery policies, businesses are serving customers, and communities are getting back on their feet.

It goes to show how much we can accomplish when we show up for each other.

But let’s be crystal clear: resilience is NOT an excuse to tolerate cruel and incompetent leadership.

Donald Trump and Secretary Noem have withheld funds for disaster recovery, and they plan to dismantle FEMA further, leaving our communities to shoulder the financial burden on their own.

Our tax dollars should go where they're needed, not to fancy White House ballrooms and golf trips to Palm Beach.

We need to work together — just as we’re helping each other right now — to make sure Trump and his Republican cronies don’t get away with this, because we deserve better.

Will you sign on to let Republicans know that North Carolinians will remember their failed disaster recovery response that left North Carolinians to recover on their own?

In this with you,

Deborah