“That being said, we will need additional funds,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Thursday at the White House press briefing.

“And we implore Congress, when it returns, to in fact fund FEMA as it is needed.”

At least 27 tornadoes touched down in Hurricane Milton, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told the White House press briefing, joining virtually from North Carolina.

“Right now, search and rescue is our highest priority,” he said.

Mayorkas warned that the storm may have passed but its hazards had not.

A topless Florida man jogged outside in Tampa despite the imminent Category 3 Hurricane Milton on Wednesday.

“I just think that people should put this in perspective,” Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said of Milton Thursday, as winds picked up. “They try to take different things that happened with tropical weather and act like it’s something.”

“There’s nothing new under the sun,” he said.

“There’s precedent for all this in history. Like, it is hurricane season. You are going to have tropical weather,” the governor told reporters.

There have been at least 10 storm-related deaths in Florida following Hurricane Milton.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis five people had been killed in tornadoes in St. Lucie County, up from four deaths that were confirmed earlier this morning.