Deanne Criswell, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, refrained from criticizing the agency’s inability to respond to Hurricane Milton, even though she acknowledged that FEMA money is likely to work out before the year’s end.  ,
” We are using the money we have to meet the urgent wants.” Another storms is on the horizon. We do not have the money. Mayorkas stated on October 2 that FEMA lacks the resources to continue with the time and the events that are coming up.  ,
Criswell assured the nation that FEMA “absolutely” has sufficient funding to get through both Hurricane Helene and the receiving Hurricane Milton.  ,
” We have sufficiently money to completely get through the answer for this storms, as well as the continued answer for Hurricane Helene,” she said.  ,
However, she and Mayorkas both agreed that FEMA does n’t “have enough money to continue for the rest of the year.”
What I find is that we might need to do is in the December or January window to make sure we always have enough money to fund life-saving initiatives,” Criswell said. We have been able to anticipate last year, this year, and even going into the following year that we wo n’t have enough money to pay all of the recovery costs because we are currently relying on the covid reimbursements from the last few years.
Amid the lack of FEMA money, Criswell’s company has been criticized for releasing around$ 650 million in aid to illegal refugees.  ,
Criswell responded to a problem on Monday that none of the money involved had been diverted from the Devastation Relief Fund, which is the firm’s principal revenue source for cyclone response efforts.  ,
The Hazard Relief Fund is the organization’s reserve fund for disaster relief, and nothing has been taken from that account to help with any other projects. The money that you’re talking about was funding that was given to]U. S. Customs and Border Protection ] and finally transferred to us to help some of those work”, she said. The Crisis Relief Fund has not been diminished, according to the statement.
The private field and volunteer organizations have stepped in to support in urgent rescue and recovery efforts following Hurricane Helene’s damaging landfall, which is said to have claimed over 230 lives and caused total destruction in many Southeast towns.
While support from organizations such as the South Carolina-based Happy Helicopters, Samaritan’s Purse, a faith-based humanitarian aid organization, and North Carolina’s Mountain Mule Packer Ranch has garnered reward, critics have said that FEMA has led administrative and inefficient work in the aftermath of the disaster.
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As she tried to put the complaints to rest on Monday, Criswell called the reaction “false.”  ,
” We have been on the floor since before Hurricane Helene crossed over North Carolina and hit Florida,” she said. ” And what I would say is, just because somebody does n’t see a person in a FEMA shirt does n’t mean that we’re not in the area” . ,