With Disaster Relief Funds Dwindling, Feds Face Backlash for Spending FEMA Dollars on Housing, Health Care for Migrants

‘FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season,’ Homeland Security’s secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, says, after the agency — tasked by Congress — distributed hundreds of millions of dollars for migrant services.

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Resident Anne Schneider, right, hugs her friend Eddy Sampson as they survey damage left in the wake of Hurricane Helene at Marshall, North Carolina. AP/Jeff Roberson

The federal agency ostensibly charged with helping Americans after disasters, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, was tasked by Congress with providing services for migrants — potentially diverting the agency’s attention away from its primary task and raising serious questions about its priorities. 

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