Tonight, President Trump's criticisms of the Federal Emergency Management Agency came to a head following visits to disaster sites. 

Trump signed his latest executive order to establish a council to reassess FEMA, stopping short of getting rid of the agency altogether. 

The order states in part the agency “has lost mission focus, diverting limited staff and resources to support missions beyond its scope and authority, spending well over a billion dollars to welcome illegal aliens.”

The diversion of FEMA funds is a widely spread false claim following Hurricane Helene, according to CBS News. 

The misinformation has long been debunked by FEMA’s fact check website which said that no money was diverted from disaster response needs.

Meantime, locally nearly two years after Typhoon Mawar.

COFA migrants, who legally reside in Guam and pay taxes, are still not eligible for recovery aid. 

According to FEMA, citizens from the Freely Associated States who lost their home during the storm are not eligible for federal aid.

Though, those with a child who is a US citizen may apply under their child’s name.

Guam has the most COFA migrants at nearly 19,000, according to the 2018 US Census Bureau. 

“It really impacted the whole entire family and the whole entire community here in Zero Down. It really hit bad. And we’re struggling with supplies and everything that we need,” said the Bureau.

At the time, senators, the governor and delegate James Moylan were pushing for their inclusion.

“There’s some long term goals that we have. But right now, the President of the United States, we’re pending a letter to send to him to request that be waived for necessary humanitarian reasons. Like the governor has expressed it is about being humane and doing the correct thing,” said Moylan. 

KUAM reached out to the Congressman’s Office for an update.