Posted on 10/06/2024 6:29:15 AM PDT by MtnClimber
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Friday denied that the Biden regime was using FEMA funds to feed, clothe and shelter noncitizens, calling the allegation “categorically false.” The White House’s denial comes as FEMA whistleblowers came forward and alleged that the agency misappropriated funds.
“Former President Trump is accusing the Biden administration of using FEMA funding to support undocumented migrants,” a reporter said during the White House press briefing. “How does the White House respond to that?” she asked.
“I mean, it’s just categorically false. It is not true. It is a false statement,” Jean-Pierre replied. She referred to a Washington Post factcheck titled, “No Biden Did Not Take FEMA Relief Money to Use on Migrants, But Trump Did.”
The factcheck by Glenn Kessler is based on Trump’s quip that the Biden Regime “stole the FEMA money just like they stole it from a bank,” an inaccurate statement on the former president’s part.
Kessler also pointed to a 2019 FEMA report showing that $38 million was taken from the agency’s disaster budget and given to Immigration and Customs Enforcement in August that year as the U.S. was “facing a security and humanitarian crisis on the Southern border.”
However, it is undeniable that FEMA’s Shelter and Services Program provided $640.9 million in grants to local governments and nonprofits to take care of undocumented immigrants. It says so on their website.
The funding was distributed through two of the agency’s Shelter and Services Programs (SSP) “$300 million through SSP – Allocated (SSP-A) and $340.9 million through SSP – Competitive (SSP-C).”
“Congress boosted the budget from $360 million in fiscal year 2023 to $650 million in fiscal year 2024,” Kessler reported. “The program’s 2023 annual report says it provides shelter, such as hotel/motel services, food and transportation, including plane tickets up to $700 a person.”
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Wednesday that FEMA did not have enough disaster relief funds to get through the rest of hurricane season.
“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.”
During her photo-op in Augusta, Georgia Wednesday, Harris announced that FEMA would provide $750 in relief funds for people who have immediate needs, a widely derided amount of assistance given biblical scale of devastation they are experiencing.
According to Rep. Matt Gaetz, FEMA whistleblowers have come forward alleging that the agency mismanaged and misappropriated funds and that first responders and service members have been waiting in hotels without deployment orders while hurricane victims languish.
According to multiple on the ground reports, virtually all the help is being done by private citizens, and rescue operations are being thwarted by FEMA.
“Numerous whistleblowers came forward to my office this week to sound the alarm on FEMA’s severe mismanagement issues, which have left first responders on the ground to assist with Hurricane Helene recovery efforts without deployment orders,” Gaetz wrote on X.
“For context, FEMA redirected $1.4 BILLION of taxpayer funds over the past two years to illegal aliens due to Border Czar Kamala Harris’ open-border policies,” he said.
“Today, I sent a letter to Mayorkas demanding answers on whether FEMA misappropriated taxpayer funds in the Disaster Relief Fund to be used on non-disaster-relief programs for illegal aliens,” he added.
She could be telling the truth...
All that EBT My money, $20-30k per month per illegal, is most likely digitally counterfeit
No one ever audits that money so it’s a win-win
Personally, I’d consider stealing them from the illegals. $20k+ every month wouldn’t suck
“..It is categorically false until it’s not...”
It’s a conspiracy theory until it’s not..
It’s Russian collusion until it’s not...
“Remember Brennan? Remember Hayden? Wray? They outright lied.”
Cannot argue that! But I’m just thinking of recent stuff that I’ve seen - lots of non-answers.
It all comes out of one pocket - ours.
Ok. Wait just an effin minute:
The USG steered a hurricane over a democrat governor’s state just before a major election to suppress the vote and punish regular Americans just to expose the [illegal?] diversion of FEMA funds to support the blatantly oath violating border invasion, and the timing was intended to maintain denial for merely a month until after the election when they would [hopefully] retain control of everything, including the unrestricted printing of $$ for their anti-US policies?
Just making sure that I’ve got all that straight.
/s
Or maybe this was just a tragic disaster and the regime is using it to manufacture yet another ‘crisis’ to mask/hide/draw attention from something else.
I’ll take “Taking advantage of tragedy to manufacture yet another crisis” for $5 Trillion, Alex.
Her coif reminds me of the Simpton character Side Show Bob’s hairdo.
“Lying springy-haired lezbo.
Didn’t you mean nappy headed ho?
RIP Don Imus.
It's obvious the moron mop head is lying when she has to state three times
conjunctively that illegal aliens did not receive millions in fema aid.
Miss Harvard Doublename says what?
Here is what CNN viewers know about the disaster response. Big headline on the CNN home page:
6 days of Trump lies about Helene response
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Articles below the major article on the home page:
The former president has delivered a barrage of lies and distortions about federal response to Hurricane Helene
‘That is not true’: Kaitlan Collins debunks Trump’s comments about FEMA and migrants
Lara Trump repeats false claim that Harris redirected disaster aid to illegal migrants
‘Let me just stop you’: Bash presses Lara Trump on Donald Trump’s false claims about Helene response
Should be scrubbing toilets with that hairdoo
How FEMA Distributes Moneys to Finance the Surge of Migrants
By David North on September 19, 2023, cis.org
The Biden administration has decided it must help localities with the harm it has imposed on them by opening the flood gates for illegal aliens (some now appearing in the guise of parolees and asylum seekers).
It has done so through an agency that has lots of experience with emergencies of various kinds, but none with international migrants, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which is part of the Department of Homeland Security. (My colleague Andrew Arthur offered some background on why FEMA is involved here.)
Instead of working through any middle-man entities, such as the states or the formerly termed “voluntary agencies” (volags), it is responding to pleas for help directly with a long series of grants to local service agencies of one kind or another.
And, like the hurriedly put-together federal financial assistance operations of the Covid era, it faces massive potential waste as seen in one New York City entity that has, understandably, stirred the interest of the New York Times.
So, while we do not have comprehensive data on these new programs, we do have two sets of clues.
First, there is a list of 86 grants made by FEMA’s “Shelter and Services Program Awards” program. This may be only a partial list of all the grants made to communities for this general purpose, but it is a useful non-random sample of them. The FEMA lists are for two tranches: tranche one was for 53 grants, and totaled $291,040,000 and the other was for 33 grants and added up to $77,308,836. The grand total was $368,343,836. (The documentation shows 88 entries, but one is a “reserve” of $10 million and another is a “total”.)
The second set of clues relates to the sole source award of $432 million to a medical services agency called DocGo by the City of New York; this is the potential scandal that caught the critical eye of the Times. Note that the total for part of the city’s program came to more than $50 million more than the total of the other 86 awards. It is not clear what the sources of money used in the New York program were; much of it may have been local. We will return to that subject later.
FEMA Grants. As to the 86, we have the name of the grantee, the state where it is active, and the amount of money granted — and that’s all. These data show what kinds of entities are being supported to help the illegal aliens and parolees, and where they operate. If the 86 are typical of the whole program, the list also shows their geographical location — as well as holes in the spread of the funds.
A typical section of the listing is shown below:
chart at web site cis.org
What can we tell from this listing of 86 recipients of FEMA funds? It should be borne in mind that a more thorough analysis is needed once more data are available. As we combed through these lists, we found the following.
Of the 86 awards, 16 went to Catholic agencies, 26 went to units of local and state government, and 44 of them were awarded to other entities such as food banks, United Ways, and a handful of Protestant organizations. None of the FEMA grants went to state governments that have been giving trouble to the Biden administration — no money went to the states of Florida or Texas, for instance. Awards were made in those states, particularly Texas, but not through the state governments.
Geographically, more than two-thirds of the grants, 60 out of 86, went to entities within the four southern border states: Texas got 45 of them; New Mexico, three; Arizona, six; and California, six. Four each were assigned to Colorado, Illinois, and New York; there were three to the District of Columbia, and two each to Georgia, Minnesota, and Louisiana, and single awards to Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
No awards were made in these two tranches in such likely settlement states as Ohio or Michigan, or in Washington State or Oregon. Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) has suggested that at least some of these migrants should be resettled, at least temporarily, in otherwise underused military bases. None were listed among the 86.
All of these organizations appeared to be non-profits, including a ranch in Luna County, N.M., which is on the border some 40 miles west of El Paso. The county has a port of entry at Columbus. The Colores United/Mariposa Ranch received $1,502,640 for whatever it did or claimed to do.
Another unusual entity being funded was the Laredo (Texas) Fire Department, which received $5,961,992; Laredo, which is probably the poorest of our southern border cities, also received three other grants.
The entities that received $10 million or more are listed below.
chart at web site
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“White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre” only knows what is printed in front of her in the big ole note book she carries around like a COPD BiPAP.
The presstitutes should ask her why she is an uninformed pathetic liar.
The FEMA funds were moved to another agency and THAT agency supported the illegals. So that was no longer FEMA money. Just like we didn’t leave billions of dollars of equipment and weapons in Afghanistan. All that was the property of the Afghanistan army and the Taliban took from them, not us.
Did not Mayorkas already allude to funding the border crossing terrorists?
So, which is it, Jean-Pierre?
You are an unabashed confabulating liar? Or,
You are ordered to be an unabashed confabulating liar? Or,
FEMA and Alejandro Mayorkas are outright lying? Or,
This is just typical White House, Biden-Harris good-speak?
As lunch box Joe has said, "We don't rely on facts, we rely on truth.."
This is just a short term distraction before the election. After the election they can explain how everyone misunderstood what they said.
“Never believe anything until it’s been officially denied’’.
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