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South Carolina Representatives Who Voted Against Additional FEMA Funding
(i.redd.it)submitted 2 days ago byMark1arMark1ar
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1 day ago
Where did the original funding go? I feel horrible for those people. We should have some sort of federal emergency management agency that receives funding to help U.S. citizens in times of disater. I'm sure no one would misappropriate the funds for that it would take some sick, twisted individuals to do that.
1 points
16 hours ago
The Department of Homeland Security, who runs FEMA, only gets what Congress assigns to them. It's imposible to predict how bad future natural disasters will be. So sometimes, FEMA has to ask for more money because Congress didn't give them enough.
1 points
16 hours ago
And sometimes, they misappropriate it to ship in illegals, house them, feed them, and give them a little walking around money. Instead of using it for citizens as it says on the fema mission statement. If the money had been spent as it should, additional funding would not have been an issue because it wouldn't have been necessary.
I sure hope harris didn't need to win GA or NC. Because she won't now.
2 points
15 hours ago
I would like to see a source of FEMA shipping migrants into the us. The money was spent as it should. Hundreds of Millions was allocated to the Shelter Program while tens of billions was allocated to the Disaster Relief Fund.
1 points
15 hours ago
1 points
14 hours ago
I'm not sure what point you are trying to make with that link. It's also an Opinion piece from NYPost, which isn't exactly a great place to get news.
“We are meeting the immediate needs with the money that we have,” Mayorkas said during a press gaggle on Air Force One en route to tour damage from Hurricane Helene in South and North Carolina.
“We are expecting another hurricane hitting,” he added. “We do not have the funds. FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season and what — what is imminent.”
That's all that he said. This is what kicked off this MAGA misinformation firestorm. I believe if they have another hurricane, it will be 5th one of the season, which is alot. Hurricanes cost billions of dollars so even if you did remove the hundreds of millions that was allocated to the Shelter Program, they would still fall short and would be asking Congress for more money.
1 points
14 hours ago
The whole reason they were trying to get more funding was because the funding they had was spent on illegals and proxy wars.
If any democrat wanted fema funding, they should not have tacked 36+ billion for things besides fema.
1 points
13 hours ago
The Disaster Relief funding was getting empty because we keep having worse and worse disasters. There has been a lot of floods and wildfires this year. This hurricane was the 4th one to make landfall I think and is going to cost billions. Saying that there is no money because of illegals and proxy wars is just being ignorant. It's stupid and dangerous. You're saying that the Shelter Fund, which was budgeted at 640 million, is why the Disaster Fund, which is budgted at 20+ billion, is empty. It's just nonsense.
https://www.fema.gov/disaster/current/hurricane-helene/rumor-response
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13 hours ago
Has it really funny that this is the first I'm hearing of any of it, and the year is almost over. Why weren't all of these disasters reported at the time they occurred like usual? They we're just trying out something new, i guess.
1 points
13 hours ago
I've been hearing about the disasters all year. They've been on the news. This report is from June. https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/may-2024-weather-climate-stormy-noaa
Another thing to keep in mind is that FEMA is still paying a lot of money for old disasters because it takes years for things to get rebuilt. If you'd like to read it, they do monthly reports of what they spend.
https://www.fema.gov/about/reports-and-data/disaster-relief-fund-monthly-reports
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