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sent to Mayorkas last week, Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee pressed the top DHS official to explain the administration’s spending priorities through the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Lawmakers decried the agency’s, especially as top Biden administration officials worry FEMA could run out of disaster relief funds while responding to recent hurricane damage in the Southeast.
For example, Congress appropriated about $61.2 billion for the DRF through both annual and supplemental appropriations bills, according to the letter. Lawmakers also pointed to the $20 billion that was approved for FEMA in the most recent stopgap spending bill Congress passed at the end of September.
“We have the immediate needs right now. On a continuing resolution, we have funds, but that is not a stable source of supply, if you will,” Mayorkas said earlier this month. “This is a multibillion-dollar, multiyear recovery.”
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