Last we heard from DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as he was defending FEMA’s lackluster response to Hurricane Helene and bemoaning the agency’s supposedly empty coffers. RedState’s Brad Slager wrote at the time:
This shell of a man who for years has proven himself a figment of a leader held a press conference on hurricane relief looked into the cameras, and without displaying an ounce of shame, declared that FEMA is essentially out of funds.
Speculation was that the coffers were empty due to funds being diverted to deal with the firehose of illegal immigrants streaming into the country. There was a lot of finger-pointing going, with House Speaker Mike Johnson revealing that the House had allocated $20 billion to FEMA before breaking for its pre-election recess, but very few answers were forthcoming from Mayorkas, FEMA, or the Biden-Harris administration.
Mayorkas is well-known for…
