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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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ElwoodBlues · M

@Broache73 says

We have no real say in how the US Government runs, or what Taxpayer Dollars are being forced to pay for.

Not that you're likely to care, but here's how you're being misled.

Congress allocates to FEMA a large pool of disaster relief money every year, $20 to $40 billion, that can ONLY be spent on disaster relief. The spending bills make it a CRIME to spend it elsewhere. In the most recent continuing budget resolution on Sept 27, republicans REFUSED Biden's request to add to the FEMA disaster relief funds (links available upon request).

FEMA also has some other smaller pools of money it administers, including Shelter and Services Program AKA SSP. According to the spending laws passed by Congreess, this money can be given to local governments for humanitarian services to legal migrants such as asylum seekers.

Here's how you're being misled, @Broache73. You are being told that the FEMA disaster relief fund was depleted by some SSP spending.

That's a flat out lie.
That's a flat out lie.

The FEMA Disaster Relief fund is not and cannot be spent on humanitarian services to migrants. The Disaster Relief fund is only as large as both Houses of Congress allocate, and is only supplemented when both Houses act.

Congress holds the purse strings. Any shortfalls in FEMA Disaster Relief are due to the Sept 27 continuing budget resolution. Congress ALWAYS holds the purse strings.

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ElwoodBlues · M

@Broache73 Wow, so you would shut off FEMA's billions of dollars per year to both Texas & Florida, just of the basis of some absurd conspiracy theories you saw on facebook?? Interesting!!

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Broache73 · 51-55, F

@ElwoodBlues

You'll also need to remind that bottom dwelling weasel Alejandro Mayorkas of the using of FEMA funds for illegal Migrants since Politico and Others were the sources who broke the story to begin with. He himself admitted that the Bureaucracy doesn't have the Public Funds for the rest of the Hurricane Season. If "We The People" handled our own finances in this manner, we'd all be in Debtor's Prison. If the American Public, Taxpayers, and Consumers were honestly in control of our Money, it's Value, and the Money Supply at large; What's the point of even having the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Reserve?! Why are Taxpayers never consulted about where our Tax Dollars are spent?! Why is it never available for American Taxpayers and Consumers to read and see for themselves how Public Funds are allocated?!

If Migrants decided to waste their Time, Lives, and Livelyhoods on a bankrupt Lipstick on a Pig called the "American Dream" they were sold, that's on them. If they themselves decided to waste their Lives and Livelyhoods of themselves and their children on a insolvent idea of migrating to a bankrupt Country that can't even balance it own checkbook or secure it's own Borders, that's on them! Being a US Taxpayer, I refuse to be their personal Piggybank. If they want to assimilate, they can figure out how to do it at their own expense. After all, they figured out how to get themselves to the Border, they can figure out how to survive there.

I don't want nor need FEMA to exist in the first place since anyone with a pulse has known FEMA's Track Record makes ENRON and WorldCom look honest!

ElwoodBlues · M

@Broache73 says

since Politico and Others were the sources who broke the story to begin with.

Got a link??
I think you'll find no money going to "illegals," instead it's going to humanitarian aid for asylum seekers who are legally in this country.

We have this giant loophole for asylum seekers. It's a holdover from the '60s & '70s when US immigration law and policy was designed to spit in the eye of Fidel Castro by treating everyone who set foot on Florida as an asylum seeker. This helped earn votes from a swing demographic in a swing state. I agree, we need immigration reform.

And the Senate Bipartisan border bill would have closed that loophole and others! It was the first immigration overhaul since Reagan gave amnesty in 1986!

And of course you know what happened to he Senate Bipartisan border bill. Trump leaned on his flunkies to kill it. Trump wanted a mess on the border to run against. Trump DAMAGED America for campaign purposes. SICK!!

Sevendays · M

@ElwoodBlues thanks for being someone who relies on facts and statistics instead of Facebook memes and lies made up by God knows who.

pdockal · 56-60, M

@Sevendays

Im relying on boots on the ground for my comments

Friends say it's private citizens who are helping and no government agencies @ this point

ElwoodBlues · M

@pdockal I'm sure that varies by location.

Staffing: As response efforts continue in North Carolina, more than 800 FEMA staff are on the ground, with more arriving daily. Over 1,200 Urban Search and Rescue personnel remain in the field helping people. These teams have rescued or supported over 3,200 survivors to date. In a move to strengthen recovery operations in Western North Carolina, President Biden has ordered an additional 500 active-duty troops equipped with advanced technological assets to the area. This brings the total number of active-duty military personnel supporting the response to 1,500. Dozens of Disaster Survivor Assistance staff are on the ground in affected areas to help survivors apply for FEMA assistance and connect them with additional state, local, federal and voluntary agency resources. Experienced FEMA leaders from around the country are in the field to bolster response efforts.

pdockal · 56-60, M

@ElwoodBlues

Of course you'd say something like that

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pdockal · 56-60, M

@ElwoodBlues

You still didn't answer if you've worked for FEMA
You still didn't answer if you've done relief efforts (collecting donations isn't what I'm talking about)

ElwoodBlues · M

@pdockal I've never worked for FEMA; I have done volunteer relief efforts in areas where I've lived.

Sevendays · M

@ElwoodBlues yep! Today's news.

Bhs123 · 36-40, F

@ElwoodBlues [media=https://tiktok.com/7423095791616675114]

ElwoodBlues · M

@Bhs123 All I seel from you is

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Bhs123 · 36-40, F

@ElwoodBlues [media=https://tiktok.com/7423241488609463594]

ElwoodBlues · M

@Bhs123 From you I see the same #306 error again.

However, I do see sevendays

Bhs123 · 36-40, F

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ElwoodBlues · M

@Bhs123 Here's how they all look on my screen.

pdockal · 56-60, M

@ElwoodBlues

Under what organization ?????