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Biden Promises Maui Fire Survivors $700 Per Household — Less Than What Is Spent on Ukraine
Breitbart ^

Posted on 08/15/2023 1:39:23 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe

President Joe Biden announced Monday that survivors of the Maui fires would receive “a one-time $700 payment per household,” after he faced criticism for telling a reporter he had “no comment” on the rising death toll.

His account posted: “We’re laser-focused on getting aid to survivors, including Critical Needs Assistance: a one-time $700 payment per household offering relief during an unimaginably difficult time.”

The one-time payment of $700 per household is less than the estimated cost to each American household for the Ukraine War, according to a budget expert at the Heritage Foundation.

Richard Stern, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget, calculated that the congressionally-approved aid to Ukraine of $113 billion amounts to roughly $900 per American household.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: biden; bidendestroyseconomy; bidenvoters; burismagate; dementiajoe; hawaii; lahaina; lahainafire; maui; mauifire; nocomment; thebakedtater; ukraine; werelookingatit; whatascumbag
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To: Vaduz

OK


21 posted on 08/15/2023 1:55:36 PM PDT by Liz (More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones. St Teresa of Avila)
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To: Tench_Coxe

How the hell does Biden or any president have the authority to just give out $700 to everyone?

I am not against it, but congress should have to approve of that IMO.


22 posted on 08/15/2023 2:00:14 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: dragnet2

ROFLMAO!!


23 posted on 08/15/2023 2:01:57 PM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: Tench_Coxe
Ukraine war funding is small potatoes compared to the illegal invasion.

The survivors should "identify" as "undocumented asylum seekers".

The feds give them the red carpet treatment.

24 posted on 08/15/2023 2:03:10 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: Fai Mao

“And after Katrina the Mexican army supplied a portable military kitchen for meals”

Lol. And they’re still here.


25 posted on 08/15/2023 2:04:00 PM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: Tench_Coxe

$700 ain’t spit in Hawaii!


26 posted on 08/15/2023 2:05:42 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: lee martell

They will get billions more. First the ones who had no insurance or were welfare or immigrants will get thousands. If you were self sufficient like I was, you get the $500 and that’s about it.


27 posted on 08/15/2023 2:06:39 PM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Mike Pence will do an ad showing how he would combat wildfires by holding up a fire extinguisher and squeezing the trigger without pulling the ring pin.


28 posted on 08/15/2023 2:07:23 PM PDT by Right Brother
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To: Tench_Coxe

That’s an insult.


29 posted on 08/15/2023 2:07:47 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Trump did the same with the urban wildfire I was in. $500. No congress.


30 posted on 08/15/2023 2:08:05 PM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: Tench_Coxe

700! That is approximately equivalent to nothing. Meanwhile he just sent a few more billion to his blackmailers in Ukraine.


31 posted on 08/15/2023 2:09:36 PM PDT by I want the USA back (The gender binary is true. There are two sexes of the species Homo Sapiens. You are one OR the other)
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To: dragnet2

Am waiting for THE...Ukraine to send some of their stolen money back. They can then claim how great they are and how they really really REALLY care.

Actually, I would laugh if Russia were to come forward and offer a few million up. Watch as pig face goes all funky, pisses his pants and shits them, yelling how it is not welcome.


32 posted on 08/15/2023 2:09:51 PM PDT by crz
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To: Tench_Coxe

$700 per household? What an insult.


33 posted on 08/15/2023 2:11:28 PM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Biden says:

“Why spend our money on people in Hawaii, when we should be spending it om people in the United States?”


34 posted on 08/15/2023 2:13:09 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Celebrating 42 years of sobriety this year, thank you Heavenly Father.)
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To: Tench_Coxe

700 bucks? That’s groceries for a family of four in ultra high cost Hawaii. These folks have no homes, but Slow Joe hands them 700 bucks. Gosh, they’d get more if they were NOT US citizens, like Ukrainians or the illegal invaders from meh-hee-ko.


35 posted on 08/15/2023 2:14:23 PM PDT by VideoPaul
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To: Mr. N. Wolfe

Aw, c’mon, man, the residents of East Palestine, Ohio, didn’t even vote for Biden, at least so far as can be determined.

Those folks in Lahaina are loyal voters for the Biden franchise, every one of them.

And they still don’t get what amounts to a pinch of salt.


36 posted on 08/15/2023 2:15:00 PM PDT by alloysteel (Take back the rainbow. Its use by LGBTQ is cultural misappropriation.)
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To: Tench_Coxe
700 bucks in Hawaii is a couple of beers.

joe's a joke and we need to RICO HIM and his crew.

37 posted on 08/15/2023 2:15:30 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: mabarker1

The smartest guy Slow Joe knows drops that much a week on crack.,..


38 posted on 08/15/2023 2:15:57 PM PDT by VideoPaul
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To: mabarker1
Lunch Bucket Joe's Prevagen® IV-bill is easily that much, pert month.
39 posted on 08/15/2023 2:24:00 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Tench_Coxe
"Golly gee, a whole 700 dollars."

Gone With the Wind movie (1940): "We're gonna' give each and every one of you 40 acres and a mule!!"

40 posted on 08/15/2023 2:29:09 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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