Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced today that FEMA is running out of money for hurricane relief:
The Federal Emergency Management Agency can meet immediate needs but does not have enough funding to make it through the hurricane season, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told reporters Wednesday.
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“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.”
That announcement prompted outrage:
The funding shortfall has come under scrutiny at a time when at least $640 million in FEMA funding is being spent on assisting communities across the country dealing with an influx of migrants.
$640 million in FEMA spending for illegal immigrants has exhausted the till.
“This is easy,” Texas Governor Greg Abbot posted on X, formerly Twitter. “Mayorkas and FEMA — immediately stop spending money on illegal immigration resettlement and redirect those funds to areas hit by the hurricane. Put Americans first.”
An account linked to former President Donald Trump’s campaign also posted that it was a “scandal” that this money was being spent on migrants rather than U.S. citizens.
Well, it is a scandal. I would add that the federal government spends so much money–$6,290,000,000,000–in so many screwy ways, it is outrageous that the government cannot meet core responsibilities without going back to Congress to ask taxpayers for more money. I suspect we could finance hurricane relief simply by firing all of the government’s DEI employees.
The other hurricane-related story, if accurate, is also disturbing. Everything I know about comes from InstaPundit, so I will just pass it on. Some readers undoubtedly know more:
🚨NEW – Federal Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has shut down aid flights into Western North Carolina.
A NOTAM has been issued by the FAA that won’t allow anyone not approved by the state to fly aid missions. They said they would give permission but they’re not being…
— Dr. Ben Braddock (@GraduatedBen) October 3, 2024
Report from a National Guard soldier. They are furious that the higher ups are refusing to send them to help Helene victims. There are hundreds of them and they are pissed. #Helene Please spread the word! pic.twitter.com/ahFJht6qzK
— Appalachian Chestnut (@AppyOrtho) October 2, 2024
Shades of Tim Walz!
More on this theme at InstaPundit. I don’t know what the facts are here, but, given what we know about Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, it is not far-fetched to think that the administration (perhaps aided by Governor Cooper) is trying to downplay the destruction wrought by Hurricane Helene and minimize public knowledge of the scale of the disaster. With the election only a month away, that is undoubtedly the principal, if not sole, preoccupation of leading Democrats.
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