Biden/Harris deplete FEMA funds for immigrants.

The Biden-Harris administration took more than a billion tax dollars that had been allocated to the agency responsible for American disaster relief and used it to offer services for illegal immigrants.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) allocated nearly $364 million in the fiscal year 2023 and $650 million for the 2024 fiscal year to the “Shelter and Services Program” “to provide humanitarian services to noncitizen migrants following their release from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS),” according to the government’s website.

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AbbySvenz · F

Rumor: Funding for FEMA disaster response was diverted to support international efforts or border related issues.

Fact

This is false. No money is being diverted from disaster response needs. FEMA’s disaster response efforts and individual assistance is funded through the Disaster Relief Fund, which is a dedicated fund for disaster efforts. Disaster Relief Fund money has not been diverted to other, non-disaster related efforts.

https://www.fema.gov/node/funding-fema-disaster-response-was-diverted-support-international-efforts-or-border-related

pdockal · 56-60, M

@AbbySvenz

It's in a deficit regardless where the money went and if I'm correct the last time money was requested it was denied to send money to foreign conflicts

FEMA did spend money on housing illegals

AbbySvenz · F

In 2019, the Trump administration, in the middle of hurricane season, told Congress that it was taking $271 million from DHS programs, including $155 million from the disaster fund, to pay for immigration detention space and temporary hearing locations for asylum seekers who have been forced to wait in Mexico. “The U.S. is facing a security and humanitarian crisis on the Southern border,” the administration said in its notice that it was redirecting the funds.

The monthly reports issued by the FEMA disaster fund show $38 million was plucked and given to Immigration and Customs Enforcement in August that year — just before the prime storm period of September and October.

@pdockal

Baremine · 70-79, C

@AbbySvenz so where did the money go then. It didn't get spent on disaster relief. Everything that comes from Biden Harris is nothing but a big lie. The democrats have become the most corrupt party in history.

AbbySvenz · F

It went where Congress allocated it@Baremine

pdockal · 56-60, M

@AbbySvenz

You just proved my point
Thank you

AbbySvenz · F

“They stole the FEMA money, just like they stole it from a bank, so they could give it to their illegal immigrants that they want to have vote for them this season,” Trump said in Michigan last week.

Non-citizens cannot vote in the election, and no disaster funds have been diverted. Instead, Trump and his allies are referring to the Shelter and Services Program that saw FEMA disseminate hundreds of millions in grants from Customs and Border Protection to municipalities that saw an influx of migrants.

That program was a separate funding source with a separate purpose covering separate years – and not relevant to the current hurricane recovery efforts.

Meanwhile, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday he had no plans to bring lawmakers back from recess before the election to address requests for additional disaster relief as Hurricane Milton approaches the Florida coast as a Category 5 storm.