False claims by a Biden administration official on the way to North Carolina sparked one controversy.
Plenty more are rumbling from the hills and hollows of the Blue Ridge and Appalachians. Members of Congress from the region are trying to learn facts in addition to sharing knowledge, their plight as steep as Mount Mitchell in the cacophony of claims.
Alejandro Mayorkas, embattled secretary of Homeland Security, told White House press corps on a plane to North Carolina last week “FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season and what – what is imminent.”
His comment from the transcript was paired with an April release from FEMA on $640 million for migrants and ignited across the political spectrum less than five weeks before a presidential Election Day.
The context was lost, however. Hurricane recovery comes from a Disaster Relief Fund – a different pot of money for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. And lost on Mayorkas was the reality of congressional action a full week earlier.
Asked Thursday on Fox News Radio if Congress should reconvene to appropriate more money, Foxx said, "Actually, no, that's not necessary because we passed the continuing resolution and we fully funded the government as of Oct. 1st. The speaker has pointed this out before. When they say they don't have money, their budgets are complete." They have all the money they need.
There is no need for Congress to go back and give supplemental funding.
Accusations without merit need to cease, too, she said.
"We need our military who can come in and help build temporary bridges and temporary roads so we can get to people. The volunteers can only do so much in that regard." So we need the military and the National Guard to be able to do that.
Even our main roads are stopped in some cases because there's washouts on major roads and they have to stop while they're working on the road trying to stabilize it.
"We often have problems with the federal government, in particular, the state government, sometime," she said.
"We need people not to hold over their heads these unnecessary rules and regulations.
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