Not always. Hugo famously held together very well and had pretty massive wind impacts (90-110mph wind gusts) as far inland as Charlotte. And of course Hazel which wrecked the DC area and then devastated the Toronto area after interacting with an imparting trough.
Francine was a good deal weaker when it hit Louisiana.
It isn’t hard to find examples of hurricanes that maintained hurricane strength a good distance inland: Katrina, Hugo, Michael, etc.
$2.4 billion package to help Ukraine for a land dispute in 2024 . The debt keeps going up, and up whether it's a Republican or Democrat. You can't easily print money without debt..