After sending billions of dollars to Ukraine, and spending billions more to house illegals, FEMA doesn’t have enough funding to last through hurricane season.
WASHINGTON (AP) — 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.
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 storm struck Florida last week, then plowed through several states in the Southeast, flooding towns and killing more than 160 people.
Mayorkas was not specific about how much additional money the agency may need, but his remarks on Air Force One underscored concerns voiced by President Joe Biden and some lawmakers earlier this week that Congress may need to pass a supplemental spending bill this fall to help states with recovery efforts.
“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.”
Hurricane season runs June 1 to Nov. 30, but most hurricanes typically occur in September and October.
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.
OH OH
Someone (‘s) Fxxced Up
Not somebody – it was Joe Biden and Kamala Harris!
The Obama/Biden/Harris Cabal squandered billions of our dollars overseas and now will set about blaming Republicans in Congress for not helping hurricane victims in The USA. The Democrats maintain a giant sinkhole that sucks up the entire budget and then they act like a pack of hyenas crying for more.
This should make any red blooded American angry as hell!
THE DEMOCRATS have put the American citizens last in everything they have done!
Another Vietnam in Ukraine’s beg-a-lot Zelensky war. The open door policy at the borders. Just shows up and Biden givens you money. The only qualification to get money is you can’t be a U S Citizen.
American citizens are dying at the hands of the Democrate party! They don’t care about you or your needs!
What the hell you think is going to happen when you vote for a Democrat?!
They believe in total destruction of the American ways and dreams.
FYI–Separate amounts of funds were appropriated to FEMA by Congress to: 1) assist immigrants with overall health and housing-related situations that are deemed to require help; 2) assist victims of natural disasters. The Republicans in Congress were petitioned to increase the amount allocated for victims of natural disasters but refused to do so. Thus far, the states of Georgia and No. Carolina have received necessary funds to deal with Helene’s effects and have partnered with the federal response in helping the citizens of both states. The governors of both states have been able to be in contact with the White House/federal gov’t and both levels of government have expressed mutual respect for the role that each is playing in recovery efforts. The amount of funds for ongoing recovery efforts will be addressed by Congress as the future plays out. I am hopeful that both parties will resist the temptation to play politics by creating a blame-game and will fund/support recovery efforts with the best interest of storm victims in their hearts.
CCM: Glenn Beck exposes how useless FEMA is in Asheville, NC.
First, he discovered that the FEMA crew was stationed OFF the main road, making them hard to find.
Next, FEMA admitted, “We got here yesterday,” a full week late.
Then, a FEMA crew member told Beck that they have a “great” app, but nobody has internet in the area.
Beck asked how victims are supposed to find FEMA’s location, and they replied, “That would be the news media’s job.”
The thing is, nobody has functioning TVs.
Then FEMA urged residents to listen to the radio in their cars for updates, the same cars that were washed away from the flood.
One crew member told Beck, “We actually go door to door.”
Beck then asked, “When will that start?”
The crew member replied, “That’s way above my head.”
“Do you want to talk to my crew lead?”
Finally, the crew leader comes in and admits to Beck, “We don’t necessarily go door to door.”
THIS is what failure looks like.
“What do the states in the storm zone need, Mr. President?” a reporter asked Biden.
“Sorry?” responded the 81-year-old president, who had just finished off celebrating former Jan. 6 committee member Liz Cheney’s supposed “physical courage” in endorsing Kamala Harris.
“What do the states in the storm zones — what do they need after what you saw today?” said the reporter.
“Oh, in the storm zone?”
“I’m wondering which storm you’re talking about,” said Biden.
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“They’ve got everything they need.”
“They’re very happy across the board.”
One user responding to the video on X noted, “This makes my blood boil!”
“Our families are suffering.”
“The death toll is going to be shocking.”
“The missing need to be found!!!!”
“Oh, everyone impacted by Helene are happy, across the board.”
“Oh.”
“Good to know.”
“Getting everything they need.”
“Oh.”
“Good to know,” wrote another user, ostensibly in disbelief over Biden’s remarks.
Critics seized upon Biden’s confusion as more evidence that Kamala Harris hid disqualifying decrepitude from the American public.
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Old Joe in one of his better moments for us as US president, and perhaps his very best:
Biden at the Beach While the World Burns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_5pSxWTY6Q
Stay focused. The issue is NOT about politicizing a storm. It is about the untruths being circulated regarding funding for Americans’ needs for recovery and the communication between the Governors of Georgia and No. Carolina. As it stands, Congress has the responsibility, both practically and morally, to provide funds to help the victims of the storm to recover. Please write some words of encouragement to those affected by the hurricane, express understanding of their plight, and let them know that all Americans stand with them. We do have an imperfect system, on both sides of the political aisle, but we have the ability to come together in times of crisis.
Editor’s Note: If we don’t hold these folks accountable, it will continue to happen. This “government” has spent billions on meaningless wars and housing “illegal” aliens, all on the backs of the ordinary people. What is the point of an agency like FEMA in the first place?
The issue is NOT about politicizing a storm, it is about calling out the sheer incompetence of OUR national government.
And please write some words of encouragement to those affected by the hurricane?
Like what?
“Don’t worry, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and FEMA have your back!”
But that will make them feel good about themselves and all warm and squishy inside!
Express understanding of their plight?
How so, when I am 843.3 miles to the north of them?
Let them know that all Americans stand with them?
Again, how so, given they have no phones or internet?
And do you actually think anyone whose house has been destroyed and community swept away is going to take any comfort from you telling them you and the nation “stand” with them?
But we have the ability to come together in times of crisis.
No, actually, we don’t!
The proof is staring us in the face down in North Carolina!
The Daily Caller
“‘Hard To Be Lectured By MSNBC On Disinformation’: WSJ Editor Reminds Viewers Scarborough Vouched For Biden’s Fitness”
Opinion by Harold Hutchison
9 October 2024
Wall Street Journal Editor-at-Large Gerry Baker took aim at MSNBC host Joe Scarbrough Wednesday after the “Morning Joe” co-host criticized the outlet for running an op-ed by Republican Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio.
Scarborough attacked The Wall Street Journal for publishing an op-ed by the Republican vice-presidential nominee criticizing the Biden-Harris administration’s response to the devastation in western North Carolina and other parts of the southeastern United States caused by Hurricane Helene.
Baker noted that Scarborough had arguably engaged in disinformation regarding the health of President Joe Biden.
“It’s hard to be lectured by MSNBC on disinformation,” Baker told “America Reports” co-host Sandra Smith.
“It feels quite a bit of chutzpah on their part.”
“This is the same Joe Scarborough who told us, I think, days or weeks before that infamous… presidential debate that saw Joe Biden pull out of the race that Biden was in incredible shape.”
“He attacked the Wall Street Journal article that just appeared that said Joe Biden was slipping.”
“He is as sharp as he’s ever been, brilliant.”
“Weeks later, we saw what Biden was like in another month later he pulled out of the race.”
Following the June 27 debate between Biden and Trump hosted by CNN, during which Biden appeared to freeze several times and made multiple verbal gaffes, Scarborough struck a different tone, saying Biden “may not be up to the job.”
Prior to seeking Baker’s comment, Smith noted that Fox News fact-checked what Vance said in the op-ed.
“We had our research team compare the Vance editorial to all the announcements regarding relief efforts from both the White House and FEMA, Gerry, and they could not find claims and that J.D. Vance editorial that was just slammed on the morning show that stood out as false,” Smith said.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has come under fire over the relief efforts in western North Carolina in the wake of the storm, which killed at least 227 people.
terence lover says @ October 8, 2024 at 2:24 am: Stay focused.
The issue is NOT about politicizing a storm.
It is about the untruths being circulated regarding funding for Americans’ needs for recovery and the communication between the Governors of Georgia and No. Carolina.
ME: What untruths are you talking about?
And who is circulating them. if you know?
You say those things as if you know about some untruths and the rest of us should be, as well, but truth be told, I haven’t heard of any.
So what on earth are you talking about?
terence lover says @ October 8, 2024 at 2:24 am: Stay focused.
The issue is NOT about politicizing a storm.
It is about the untruths being circulated regarding funding for Americans’ needs for recovery and the communication between the Governors of Georgia and No. Carolina.
ME: Quite frankly, I now treat EVERYTHING coming out of Washington, D.C. as either misinformation, disinformation or just plain old garden variety outright lies.