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 southeastern U.S. — particularly since Mayorkas recently told the media the agency “does not have the funds, to make it through the [hurricane] season.” Read Full Story

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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, Georgia, and North Carolina. Democrats maintain they wanted more disaster relief funding in the continuing resolution passed last month.

The bottom line is that senior administration officials and congressional leaders, for now, think that the $20 billion in rapid-spending authority authorized by Congress last month should be enough to fund federal disaster relief operations until lawmakers reconvene in Washington after the election. Read More Here

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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 the WORST rescue operation in the history of the U.S.,” Trump wrote on social media Monday. 

“North Carolina has been virtually abandoned by Kamala!!! Drop her like she dropped you.” Read Full Story

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