But discussions surrounding FEMA and disaster-relief funding have taken a sharply political bent in recent weeks, a development that may complicate discussions in Congress. Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly lambasted the agency and falsely suggested that funds meant for hurricane victims are being diverted toward migrants or mysteriously disappearing.
For the third straight day, Biden on Friday called out Trump for spreading falsehoods about the federal government’s response to the storm.
Misinformation and disinformation, the president said, are “a permanent state of being for some extreme people. But I don’t think it’s what the country is about. We’re breaking through with it, we’re breaking through with the truth.”
