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Henry Cuellar: “FEMA gets $5.7 billion including $3.8 billion for federal…”

Featuring: Henry Cuellar, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 28

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ICE can operate based on the funds that they were provided under reconciliation. But we cannot say the same thing to other departments or other agencies under DHS especially especially when we talk about FEMA. FEMA gets $5.7 billion including $3.8 billion for federal assistance which is a 20% increase above FY20. And again that money goes back to help firefighters helps threats disasters and again it also provides money to CISA and as you know, there were cuts, but we are … (02:55–03:06)

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