An Arizona Democrat called out President Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for dragging its feet on helping the communities of his state and other border states.
Arizona Democrat Rep. Ruben Gallego has been an outspoken critic of the Federal Emergency Management Administration’s (FEMA) Shelter and Services Program (SSP) funding model for border communities amid the immigration crisis.
Gallego has sent several letters to the Biden administration regarding his disagreement on the funding model — including one to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas — and called the SSP model “misguided” in his letter to FEMA.