FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell has criticized former President Donald Trump for spreading false claims about how the Biden administration allocated disaster relief funding for Hurricane Helene recovery. Trump falsely claimed that FEMA was running out of money due to funds being diverted to support illegal immigration, a claim FEMA directly addressed and refuted.
FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell criticized Donald Trump for spreading false information about how the Biden administration allocated disaster relief funding for Hurricane Helene recovery.
FEMA received a $20 billion cash boost from the stopgap funding bill that Congress passed to avert a government shutdown, which went into effect last Tuesday.on ABC's"This Week.""This kind of rhetoric is not helpful to people. It's really a shame that we're putting politics ahead of helping people."was running out of money to aid its disaster relief efforts, because the White House had used the funds"on illegal migrants coming into the country.
Criswell on Sunday called that rhetoric"demoralizing to all of the first responders that have been out there in their communities helping people."
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