WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump was briefed on Sunday about the path of Hurricane Irma and preparations made to respond to the storm by the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the White House said.

The Republican president, who met with his cabinet at Camp David this weekend, also spoke to the governors of Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee as the hurricane path moved away from the lower Florida Keys westward to the Gulf Coast and states to the north.

Vice President Mike Pence and several members of Trump’s cabinet were set to visit FEMA headquarters on Sunday afternoon to talk with staff members who have been working there as well as agency officials, the White House said.

Trump, who is set to return to the White House on Sunday afternoon, has spoken regularly to Florida Governor Rick Scott and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, both Republicans, and spoke on Sunday with U.S. Senator Ben Nelson, a Democrat, the White House said.

Trump also issued a disaster declaration for Puerto Rico on Sunday and expanded federal funds available to the U.S. Virgin Islands in the aftermath of Irma, the White House said.

Those islands have had massive power outages, but search-and-rescue operations had to wait out Hurricane Jose before they could begin recovery efforts there, Brock Long, FEMA director, said on ABC’s “This Week.”

“I‘m in great communication with the White House and Homeland Security,” Long said. “We’ve all been working together. They realize what needs to be done to give me the enduring authority to push forward.”

Florida Governor Scott said he spoke with Trump on Sunday morning. “He’s offered every resource there is of the federal government,” Scott told the ABC program.