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‘Categorically False’: Karine Jean-Pierre Denies That FEMA Funds Were Used to Support Noncitizens
American Greatness ^ | 4 Oct, 2024 | Debra Heine

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.



TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: illegalinvasion
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1 posted on 10/06/2024 6:29:15 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Will the MSM fact check that?


2 posted on 10/06/2024 6:29:51 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

Nope, which is why she has no problem continually lying and getting paid $186K of our money for it.


3 posted on 10/06/2024 6:31:38 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: MtnClimber

Lying springy-haired lezbo.


4 posted on 10/06/2024 6:32:30 AM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: MtnClimber

It is categorically false until it’s not.


5 posted on 10/06/2024 6:32:47 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: MtnClimber

Put her under oath and watch what she says...


6 posted on 10/06/2024 6:33:21 AM PDT by BobL
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To: MtnClimber

She’s a knucklehead and usually mis-speaks.


7 posted on 10/06/2024 6:34:50 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)
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To: MtnClimber

I wish I could be a fly on the wall during the Dems hiring process for press secretary.

“Can you continually lie and keep a straight face?”

“Not that you’d ever have to do it, but can you satisfactorily pivot and shift when confronted about a lie by the communist propaganda press corp?”


8 posted on 10/06/2024 6:34:57 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: MtnClimber

She’s one of the Dung Beetle Party’s token Haitians. What did the far-left “media” think she would say?


9 posted on 10/06/2024 6:35:13 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The New "American Dream"! U.S. taxpayer financed - "ASYLUM" for foreign fugitives.)
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To: MtnClimber

“Fact checking” is solely a Democrat Campaign function.


10 posted on 10/06/2024 6:37:37 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: BobL

Firstly, she’d never allow herself to be put in a situation where an “oath” is involved. She’d just refuse to come before Congress and the Administration would back her up under “executive privilege.”

Secondly, she’d just lie


11 posted on 10/06/2024 6:39:12 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: MtnClimber

Define catagorically.


12 posted on 10/06/2024 6:40:25 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: MtnClimber

Yes, Side Show Bobbie, you are categorically false


13 posted on 10/06/2024 6:43:05 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (What is the cost of lies?)
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To: ClearCase_guy

She is a historic knucklehead, since is she is both black and lesbian. Not your run-of-the-mill knucklehead.


14 posted on 10/06/2024 6:48:06 AM PDT by Bernard (I just clicked over another tag line, Time to run without for a while.)
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To: MtnClimber
Shell game. But we're not fooled.



15 posted on 10/06/2024 6:50:31 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: plain talk

“I may be a Birdbrain, but I ain’t stupid!” Seymour the Seagull in Cincinnati.

“Seagulls become clever, because they are as greedy as Crows


16 posted on 10/06/2024 7:00:14 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Gaffer

“Secondly, she’d just lie”

Probably not, under oath, at least that’s the trend I keep seeing when Biden’s people testify at Congress - they simply don’t answer the question (which, by the way, is also perjury, since you’re not telling the ‘whole truth’).


17 posted on 10/06/2024 7:23:43 AM PDT by BobL
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To: MtnClimber
This one’s better, it’s video of her saying they did!

Karine Jean Pierre Debunks Karine Jean Pierre About FEMA Money Going to Aid Illegal Aliens

https://rumble.com/v5hnpuj-karine-jean-pierre-debunks-karine-jean-pierre-about-fema-money-going-to-aid.html

18 posted on 10/06/2024 7:27:26 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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To: BobL

Remember Brennan? Remember Hayden? Wray? They outright lied.


19 posted on 10/06/2024 7:30:13 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: MtnClimber

The government’s budget year starts October 1st, right? How are the accounts not full?


20 posted on 10/06/2024 7:31:17 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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