So what does this mean then? --
^^Last line in your link.
Something doesn't add up.
Well, it is rather easy to make it look like things don't add up if one cuts out the relevant facts - a particularly slimey move when "one" is complaining about the cutting out of relevant facts.
Also from the article: North Carolina asked for $929 million from the government in its effort to recover from the disaster last year. The Trump administration has agreed to give it only $6.1 million — less than 1% of what the state said it needed.
Also from the article: "The state sustained an estimated $4.8 billion in damages when the hurricane ravaged the area last October, according to the governor’s office. Hurricane Matthew killed nearly 30 people in North Carolina, and damaged more than 100,000 homes and buildings."
And what led to your quote, cherry-picked in haste? This did:
Cooper wrote that he and state legislators collaborated to come up with a “conservative” funding request. North Carolina needs most of the federal funds for housing and public buildings — “our state’s most critical and immediate needs,” as the governor put it. The money the Trump administration has offered is not enough to cover even one of the state’s multiple recovery requests. North Carolina asked for a combined $600.6 million for housing repairs and elevation, as well as $39 million for small businesses, $37 million for health services, $43 million for public facilities and $92.6 million for agriculture recovery. The White House offered no public explanation for denying the funds to North Carolina, a swing state Trump won in the presidential election. So far, North Carolina has secured $1.4 billion in state and federal funds for Hurricane Matthew recovery.
Must we do math?
Damage: 4.8 billion
Requested from feds: 0.600 billion
Also requested: 0.929 billion
Received from feds: 0.0061 billion
{edit: I see someone has claimed they got 600 mil already, then disclaimed it. Either way, point stands}.
So now comes that sentence, "So far, North Carolina has secured $1.4 billion in state and federal funds for Hurricane Matthew recovery."
State AND federal it says. Well, the federal appears to be 0.0061 billion, so that means that everything between 0.0061 and 1.4 billion are STATE FUNDS, not federal funds. (Unless someone can demonstrate the article itself is factually wrong. I don't trust NY daily news).
Meaning.....in turn.....
Damage: 4.8 billion
Federal funding: 0.0061 billion
State funding: 1.393 billion
Needed over time: 3.4009 billion