Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo was corrected on the spot by Rep. French Hill (R-AR) after she attempted to push the false claim that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was “out of money.”
Misinformation about FEMA and its relief response to Hurricane Helene has been widespread over the past week, pushed by former President Donald Trump, his campaign and MAGA Republicans. There are several false claims circulating that range from misrepresenting how disaster funding works to claiming that the emergency relief funding has been spent already by the Biden administration on housing immigrants.
In an interview with Hill on Fox Business, attacking President Joe Biden, Bartiromo said that FEMA “running out of money” was beside the “wide open border” as “the biggest failure of this administration.”
She continued: “[Department of Homeland Security] secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is warning that FEMA is out of money. A FEMA administrator doubled down on that yesterday.”
“You are an elected official,” the host said. …