President Joe Biden and other leaders are warning that Congress will soon need to pass additional funding to fill the federal government’s rapidly dwindling disaster-relief coffers after two major hurricanes slammed into the southeastern US.

President Joe Biden on Thursday joined growing calls from Democrats and even one Republican to bring Congress back to pass certain additional disaster aid funding in the wake of the devastation in southeastern states caused by back-to-back hurricanes.

Hurricane Helene had barely passed through the Southeast before Florida was battered with another devastating storm, Hurricane Milton. The back-to-back storms have stretched some disaster relief agencies thin,