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U.S. Sen. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) said it’s “outrageous” the Biden-Harris Administration announced last week that Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has insufficient funds for the remainder of the hurricane season after the administration “allocated over $1.4 billion” for illegal aliens.

“It’s outrageous that the Biden-Harris administration claims that FEMA may not have the money to make it through hurricane season after they allocated over $1.4 billion to house illegal aliens who should have never been in this country,” Budd posted on X. 

U.S. Homeland Security Director Alejandro Mayorkas  said on October 3 that FEMA “does not have enough funding to cover the rest of the hurricane season,” reported Axios. 

The DHS Secretary’s comments come after “Hurricane Helene carved a path of destruction through six southeastern states, leaving unprecedented devastation totaling tens of billions of dollars across communities, several of which officials said Thursday will need a full rebuild.” 

Vice President Kamala Harris (D) announced that Hurricane Helene victims with “immediate needs to be met such as food, baby formula and the like,” can apply for $750 in FEMA relief funds, reported the Macon Telegraph.

The Biden-Harris Administration, through FEMA, spent “more than $1.4 billion since the fall of 2022 to address the migrant crisis,” reported the New York Post. “DHS allocated $780 million for the migrant crisis last year initially through the FEMA Emergency Food and Shelter Program, which funds relief not associated with natural disasters, and then through the new FEMA Shelter and Services Program, which was authorized in late 2022 by Congress to respond to the migrant crisis.”

“The $640.9 million spent this year comes solely from the Shelter and Services Program,” reported the Post.

U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said on the Oct. 6 edition of Meet the Press that “it is true that FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security have been spending billions of dollars on migrants.”

“We just passed a short term spending bill, very common for the [Biden - Harris] administration to come and ask for permission to move money between funds, especially to prepare for emergencies,” said Cotton. “This administration seems to have no problem finding money when they want to spend it on their priorities; when they need 100s of billions of dollars to pay off student loans for graduate students and gender studies programs, they somehow find it.”

“When it's trying to get helicopters to deliver food and water and cellular service and life saving medicine into these mountain valleys, they somehow can't seem to find the money,” said Cotton.