The truth behind FEMA’s hurricane funding shortfall and $1 billion migrant expenditure

Published October 4, 2024 4:24pm ET



An admission by impeached Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that the department’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is running out of money to respond to future hurricanes has sorely irritated Republicans.

Infuriated GOP lawmakers have blamed Mayorkas and the Biden-Harris administration for a shortfall in funding to respond to future hurricanes in the remainder of this year’s season. Republicans have claimed that the FEMA spent money on the border crisis that ought to have gone toward its natural disaster response.

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