This lack of transparency, it is not OK.

FEMA's Emergency Food and Shelter Program, originally created to help homeless Americans, has now become a program to pay for illegal foreign nationals residing in our communities and in our cities.

I also hope that many of the reforms we have passed in my time on the Committee will help remove unnecessary red tape and bureaucratic policies as we move through the recovery process.

I have overarching concerns about decisions being made that waste taxpayer dollars and reduce our readiness.

On a bipartisan basis, the committee, and this subcommittee, in particular, have worked to improve FEMA and the Federal Government's emergency management system.

FEMA's role is critical. We have had recent flooding and tornadoes in my district, and it is important for FEMA to work quickly and closely with the State emergency management agencies and local responders.

I am proud to again be one of the cochairs of FEMA's National Preparedness Month, which helps educate the American people on what they can do to be prepared.

I hope FEMA will work swiftly and efficiently to approve this declaration so the people of Missouri can continue to recover.

It is not OK that we can't explain it. It is not OK that FEMA tries to hide behind this proprietary model.

Now, in the wake of one of the deadliest fires in United States history, a supplemental request for additional disaster funding comes with strings attached to Ukraine?

The Homeland Security Act prohibits--prohibits--the diversion of FEMA assets, functions, or mission for the continuing use of any other DHS organization unless such assignments do not reduce the capability of FEMA to perform its missions.