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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas warned on Wednesday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency won’t have enough funding to last through the hurricane season.

The agency is currently responding to the devastation from Hurricane Helene delivering critical supplies to those devastated by the storm in states including North Carolina, Florida and Georgia.

Mayorkas did not specify how much more money it would request from Congress.

An emergency session in Congress has not yet been scheduled. 

Conservative Republicans have argued that FEMA would have more money if it didn’t spend close to $1 billion to respond to the influx of migrants the Biden administration has released into the U.S. 

In FY2024, FEMA provided $640.9 million for the “Shelter and Services Program” to “enable non-federal entities to off-set allowable costs incurred for services associated with noncitizen migrant arrivals in their communities.” 

The Federalist reported that FEMA spent about $364 million on that program in FY2023 “to provide humanitarian services to noncitizen migrants following their release from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).”