President Donald Trump said his administration is “sparing no expense” to prepare for Hurricane Florence, which he described as “tremendously big and tremendously wet,” and containing “tremendous amounts of water.”

“We are totally prepared,” he said Tuesday. “We are ready as anybody has ever been.”

Trump also predicted Congress “will be very generous” in providing any needed hurricane relief dollars after the storm, as is forecast, unleashes heavy winds and rains on the Carolinas and the Mid-Atlantic region.

“Because we have no choice,” he said of his administration and lawmakers without elaborating. The president noted the executive branch has some emergency funds already, but he left open the door that Congress might have to allocate more once a final damage assessment is conducted after Florence blows through later this week and into the weekend.

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