Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas set off outrage Wednesday when he told reporters that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) “does not have the funds” to see Americans through the rest of this Atlantic hurricane season — after the agency spent more than $1.
US feds say there's no money left to respond to hurricanes - after emergency agency spent $2 billion on migrants
Critics pointed out that the Department of Homeland Security allocated $640.9 million this year in FEMA-administered funds to aid state and local governments coping with the influx of asylum seekers — though Mayorkas’ office fired back late Thursday, insisting that those funds couldn’t be used for hurricane relief because Congress authorized them specifically for the migrant crisis.
A damaged property stands in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in Chimney Rock, North Carolina. Picture: Getty“These claims are completely false,” DHS said in a statement Thursday to Fox News following the Republican outcry. The basic program from which migrant funds flowed aimed to alleviate homelessness — with 1983 legislation setting up the Emergency Food and Shelter Program and calling for “projects and activities in civil jurisdictions with high unemployment, or in labor surplus areas, or in political units or in pockets of poverty.”
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