House Republicans are demanding answers from Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas regarding the Biden administration’s allocation of federal funds to illegal immigrants compared to disaster relief. 

In a letter sent to Mayorkas last week, Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee pressed the top DHS official to explain the administration’s spending priorities through the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Lawmakers decried the agency’s programs focused specifically on illegal immigrants, especially as top Biden administration officials worry FEMA could run out of disaster relief funds while responding to recent hurricane damage in the Southeast.