Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Deanne Criswell pushed back against fears her agency doesn’t have enough resources to respond to Hurricane Milton, though she admitted FEMA funding is set to run out before the year’s end.
During an interview with Fox News’s Brett Baier on Monday evening, Criswell responded to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’s recent remarks made in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene’s landfall that FEMA is running out of money.
“We are meeting the immediate needs with the money that we have. We are anticipating another hurricane hitting. We do not have the funds. FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season and what is imminent,” Mayorkas said on Oct. 2.
Criswell assured the country that FEMA “absolutely” has enough funding not only to get through Hurricane Helene but through incoming Hurricane…
