Hurricane Helene

TobyC said:

According to a source in North Carolina, despite 1,000 troops being ready and authorized to respond in NC, FEMA Region 4 and Democrat NC Gov. Roy Cooper haven’t yet written up the mission orders that the troops need in order to be deployed. So those troops are just sitting around twiddling their thumbs.

It’s been 7 days since Hurricane Helene made landfall. What on earth are you doing,
@RoyCooperNC
and
@FEMA
?

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TobyC said:

REPORT: The de*th toll from Hurricane Helene has surpassed 200 as FEMA announces they do "not have the funds" to help Americans make it through hurricane season.

This is due to the fact that $640.9M in FEMA-administered funds have been spent on illegal immigrants.

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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.

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Trump has a habit of assuming other politicians act in the same way as he would. So we wondered why he would accuse Biden of raiding the FEMA disaster fund to handle undocumented migrants.
It turns out that’s because he did this. 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 had been forced to wait in Mexico.

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