Former President Donald Trump on Monday said he would be in favor of Congress returning early from recess to pass additional aid following Hurricane Helene.  “I would be in favor of it, yeah. This is a very unusual situation,” Trump told reporters in Asheville, North Carolina, where he toured storm damage.  “In theory [FEMA is] […]

Senate Republicans are pumping the brakes on a year-end omnibus spending package after previously thinking they would be able to squeeze House Speaker Mike Johnson into bringing a trillion-dollar package to the House floor if it was paired with federal disaster relief.  But the appetite among Senate Republicans for jamming Johnson with a huge spending bill is fading. […]

Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee pressed Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to explain spending priorities on disaster relief and illegal immigration through the Federal Emergency Management Agency. In a letter to Mayorkas last week, lawmakers decried the agency’s programs focused specifically on illegal immigrants in light of damage wrought by recent hurricanes in the […]

Federal disaster aid is becoming a political football, with both parties trading accusations over the failure to pass more disaster relief as part of a government funding deal last month amid back-to-back hurricanes. Some Republican lawmakers are accusing the Biden-Harris administration of dragging their feet on providing disaster relief funding to hard-hit areas in Florida, […]

Former President Donald Trump railed against the Biden-Harris administration, saying they “abandoned” Americans in North Carolina who still need help after Hurricane Helene ravaged the state. “The GREAT people of North Carolina are being stood up by Harris and Biden, who are giving almost all of the FEMA money to Illegal Migrants in what is now considered to be […]