FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell has highlighted the urgent need for additional funding from Congress by December or January to sustain the agency's disaster response and recovery efforts. Without the necessary funding, FEMA may have to limit its support to immediate disasters and temporarily halt longer-term recovery initiatives.
Currently, FEMA has sufficient funding to address the impacts of hurricanes Helene and Milton, as well as provide ongoing assistance to survivors of previous storms and wildfires across the nation. However, Criswell emphasized that without a supplemental budget, sustaining these recovery efforts will become challenging.
