Fears of an immediate cash crunch at the Federal Emergency Management Agency that could necessitate congressional action before the November elections receded on Tuesday after President Joe Biden raised that prospect a day earlier.
Even so, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas warned of a long and extensive road ahead for Hurricane Helene recovery efforts because of what he called the “historic magnitude” of the storm in North Carolina and other southeastern states.
“The rebuilding is something that is not for today but is something that is going to be extraordinarily costly and is going to be a multiyear enterprise,” Mayorkas said at a White House briefing Tuesday.
