By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-03 12:58:17 | Updated at 2024-10-03 15:32:44
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Mayorkas Says FEMA Will Run Out of Funds Before Hurricane Season is Over; Agency Spent $640.9 Million on Noncitizens in 2024
American Greatness ^ | 2 Oct, 2024 | Debra Heine
Posted on 10/03/2024 5:53:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has spent more than $600 million of available funds to serve noncitizen migrants in fiscal year 2024, and now, according to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the agency doesn’t have enough funding left over to make it through the rest of the hurricane season.
“The agency is being stretched as it works with states to assess damage from Hurricane Helene and delivers meals, water, generators and other critical supplies,” the Associated Press reported.
Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida last Thursday, then plowed through Georgia, the Carolinas, Tennessee and Virginia, flooding towns and killing more than 160 people.
More than 150,000 households have registered for assistance with FEMA, and that number is expected to rise rapidly in the coming days, said Frank Matranga, an agency representative.
The devastation was especially severe in the Blue Ridge Mountains, where at least 57 people died in and around Asheville, North Carolina, a tourism haven known for its art galleries, breweries and outdoor activities.
“Communities were wiped off the map,” North Carolina’s governor, Roy Cooper, said at a news conference Tuesday.
“We are meeting the immediate needs with the money that we have. We are expecting another hurricane hitting,” Mayorkas said. “FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season.”
Mayorkas made his comments as Joe Biden and Kamala Harris traveled to the Southeast for photo ops amid the devastation left in the storm’s wake.
Harris visited Augusta, Georgia, one of the cities hit hardest by Hurricane, two days after Trump, along with Christian evangelist Franklin Graham’s relief organization Samaritan’s Purse, surveyed the damage in Valdosta, Georgia, and passed out truckloads of supplies. During her stop, Harris announced that FEMA would provide whopping $750 in relief funds for people who have immediate needs.
As of April, more than $174 billion in American tax dollars have been appropriated to assist Ukraine. A total of $640.9 million has been spent to feed, clothe and house noncitizens.
Congress recently provided $20 billion in funding to FEMA’s disaster relief fund as part of a short-term government spending bill to fund the government through Dec. 20, according to the AP. The bill reportedly “gave FEMA flexibility to draw on the money more quickly as needed.”
Mayorkas claimed Wednesday that FEMA has been able to meet the immediate needs of Americans in communities devastated by the hurricane, however according to multiple reports, the federal government has offered little to no help.
According to independent journalist Breanna Morello, the Biden-Harris regime and North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper (D) are refusing to deploy search and rescue teams to help Americans trapped after Hurricane Helene.
These teams have been in the area since Sunday, but have not been granted authorization to rescue anyone.
“They’re waiting to get authorization through Title 10,” Morello reported on X Wednesday.
Title 10 of the United States Code covers roles, missions, and organization of the United States Armed Forces, and establishes the legal basis for the Department of Defense.
“For some reason that’s not coming down,” she said.
TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: illegalinvasion
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1 posted on 10/03/2024 5:53:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber
To: MtnClimber
Our tax dollars are being spent by people who are not on our side.
2 posted on 10/03/2024 5:54:10 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
To: MtnClimber
3 posted on 10/03/2024 5:55:43 AM PDT by Hattie
To: MtnClimber
This should be a talking point for Trump et al, it’s not the money, it’s that they are spending it in all the wrong places on non citizens.
4 posted on 10/03/2024 5:56:18 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
To: MtnClimber
5 posted on 10/03/2024 5:56:50 AM PDT by butlerweave
To: MtnClimber
Hey jerk,use the money your using for the illegal invasion you stinking traitor
6 posted on 10/03/2024 5:56:59 AM PDT by ballplayer
To: MtnClimber
I want to know the daily cost and per person cost of these illegal invaders. That money is being spent on them as a matter of their regular policy and not on our citizens affected by natural disaster needs to be flashed on neon signs by Trump and Vance every single day.
7 posted on 10/03/2024 5:57:26 AM PDT by vivenne
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