FEMA has enough money for Hurricane Milton but warns of shortfalls for rest of year

Published October 7, 2024 9:27pm ET



Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Deanne Criswell pushed back against fears her agency doesn’t have enough resources to respond to Hurricane Milton, though she admitted FEMA funding is set to run out before the year’s end. 

During an interview with Fox News’s Brett Baier on Monday evening, Criswell responded to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’s recent remarks made in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene’s landfall that FEMA is running out of money. 

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