US EditionMullin pledges progress on disaster relief during his first official trip as DHS secretary
Mullin said FEMA will focus on funding states and local governments as 2,000 North Carolina projects still await approval.
- On Tuesday, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin visited western North Carolina to address Hurricane Helene recovery, pledging to accelerate Federal Emergency Management Agency relief and clear project backlogs affecting roughly 2,000 pending approvals.
- Last week, Mullin rescinded a rule requiring his personal approval for Department of Homeland Security expenditures over $100,000, which critics said had bottlenecked FEMA reimbursements and hampered disaster recovery efforts.
- FEMA approved $26 million in home buyouts Monday to relocate families from flood zones, while the agency manages about $1.6 billion in obligated public assistance for North Carolina across roughly 2,000 projects still awaiting approval.
- Mullin vowed to reform FEMA's bureaucracy rather than eliminate it, pushing back on administration calls to shut down the agency while promising shutdown-affected staff would receive missing paychecks by Friday.
- Future DHS operations depend entirely on congressional appropriations, as the Disaster Relief Fund holds about $3.6 billion; Mullin also signaled potential immigration enforcement shifts, including possibly removing Customs and Border Protection officers from sanctuary cities.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — On Tuesday, the new Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, visited western North Carolina. He’s promising more help a year and a half after Hurricane Helene inflicted roughly $60 billion in damages on the region. Before touring a few ongoing projects, Secretary Mullin heard from state lawmakers and [...]
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