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Biden warns that disaster aid will go broke before election
The Washington Times ^ | Oct 5, 2024 | Alex Miller

Posted on 10/05/2024 1:44:30 PM PDT by McGruff

President Biden warned that the money for a disaster aid loan program used by survivors of Hurricane Helene and other calamities will soon dry up without intervention from Congress.

In a letter to the four congressional leaders on Friday, Mr. Biden said the Small Business Administration’s program is on the verge of going broke before Congress is slated to return after the Nov. 5 election.

The loans are a “critical lifeline” that act as the “largest source of Federal disaster recovery funds,” he said, adding that $1.2 billion is needed to refill the program’s coffers. Lawmakers are out of town until Nov. 12.

“I warned the Congress of this potential shortfall even before Hurricane Helene landed on America’s shores,” Mr. Biden said.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: biden; disasteraid; fema; helene
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1 posted on 10/05/2024 1:44:30 PM PDT by McGruff
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2 posted on 10/05/2024 1:45:21 PM PDT by McGruff (Ask everyone, Are you better off than you were four years ago?)
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To: McGruff

Bull - congress allocated 20 billion dollars in relief funding for Helene before they ended the session


3 posted on 10/05/2024 1:46:00 PM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: McGruff; Allegra; bimboeruption; kiryandil; aMorePerfectUnion

[Biden warns that disaster aid will go broke before election]

Now about that $175 billion that Democrat Joe Biden spent in Ukraine the past 2 years......


4 posted on 10/05/2024 1:46:02 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: McGruff

I would really like to think that this message is getting out to the general public. I’d also like to think that the general public is paying attention and cares.

My gut tells me that neither of those things is true.


5 posted on 10/05/2024 1:48:25 PM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: rdcbn1

Didn’t the fiscal year start 5 days ago? Oct 1 begins the fiscal year and the entirety of their 2025 budget should have just be released to them.

And, as you say, a huge chunk of new money was just specifically allocated for this particular event.


6 posted on 10/05/2024 1:50:04 PM 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: rdcbn1

Yup....johnson talked about it...and all would be well...So Biden is full of crap.


7 posted on 10/05/2024 1:50:18 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (mY)
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To: McGruff

Is he bragging or complaining?


8 posted on 10/05/2024 1:50:48 PM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: McGruff

But endlessly more billions for Ukraine.


9 posted on 10/05/2024 1:55:17 PM PDT by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: McGruff

The real “disaster” is this Biden regime that pisses away millions of dollar every day.


10 posted on 10/05/2024 1:57:47 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: McGruff

That sound you hear is a presidential campaign imploding.


11 posted on 10/05/2024 1:59:37 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: McGruff

The article fails to ask why - in a year with few disasters - FEMA is out of money.


12 posted on 10/05/2024 1:59:45 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: McGruff

More votes for Trump, except those Dems who have maggot infestations in their brains. Because Trump is sending in truckloads in and, the local county Sheriffs say they will arrest FEMA gestapo who interfere... Ivanka is there to help with distribution...


13 posted on 10/05/2024 2:01:53 PM PDT by BigEdLB ( Let’s go Brandon)
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To: SaveFerris

>>>>Now about that $175 billion that Democrat Joe Biden spent in Ukraine the past 2 years......<<<<

10% of $175 billion is $17,500,000,000.

That’s a large kickback, even for the Big Guy.


14 posted on 10/05/2024 2:04:32 PM PDT by bimboeruption (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023)
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To: McGruff

and the moronic liberal leftist democrats will STILL vote d...just like the Jewish community votes majority d for the party that SUPPORTS their genocide. read in a book “I will send them Strong delusion such that they will believe The Lie” applies. not to worry though. for the believer we already know how this will end. some sheep,.some goats. the REAL question for so-called believers is simple...”do you believe IN God or do You BELIEVE God”? Jesus stated that the devils believe and tremble but it reads of Abraham “Abraham BELIEVED God and it was accounted to him for Rightousness”. which one are you? only YOU can honestly answer that. don’t fool yourselves with a flippant answer for “every idle word you speak shall be accounted for”. what’s in YOUR salvation wallet?


15 posted on 10/05/2024 2:04:37 PM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star)
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To: rdcbn1

so then....where is it?


16 posted on 10/05/2024 2:05:33 PM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star)
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To: McGruff; All
Thank you for referencing that article McGruff.

"Biden warns that disaster aid will go broke before election "


On one hand, desperate elite Democrats and their global warming alarmist friends push the politically correct narrative that global warming is responsible for increased hurricane activity.

On the other hand, they not only fail to have hurricane disaster aid ready when one strikes during hurricane season, but provide only paltry relief in a pivotal election year.

Since career federal lawmakers have repeatedly proven that they are enemies of the people imo, it is now up to Democratic and Republican Trump supporters to effectively "impeach and remove" ALL (exceptions?) federal lawmakers and executives in November, likewise for renegade states.

In fact, it's up to us Trump supporters to take the first MAJOR step in draining the swamp by supporting hopeful Trump 47 with a new, Constitution-respecting Congress, new state lawmakers too, not only so that he will not be a lame duck president from the first day of his second term, but will support him to quickly finish draining the swamp.

Finally, let's not allow the anti-Trump media try to fade our memories of what we witnessed on July 13.


17 posted on 10/05/2024 2:11:47 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: McGruff

You mean there will not be any hot showers for FEMA workers?


18 posted on 10/05/2024 2:14:21 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (We used to be a Republic, we are now a Fascist Klepto-Thugocracy.)
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To: brownsfan

I would really like to think that this message is getting out to the general public.

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The ONLY way this happens is for PDJT to let the media do it for him. Exactly the same way he used them with the eating the cats business. Trump will do this. Watch.


19 posted on 10/05/2024 2:14:50 PM PDT by mund1011 (We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality)
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To: mund1011

“The ONLY way this happens is for PDJT to let the media do it for him. Exactly the same way he used them with the eating the cats business. Trump will do this. Watch.”

I freely admit I’m not as smart as Trump. When he mentioned eating dogs and cats, I thought: There he goes again. It turns out, it was genius. It forced the media to acknowledge that Springfield was being overrun.


20 posted on 10/05/2024 2:17:05 PM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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