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Fact checking falsehoods about FEMA funding and Hurricane Helene
npr ^ | October 7, 2024 | Stephen Fowler

Posted on 10/07/2024 4:49:12 PM PDT by xxqqzz

Rumors, misinformation and lies about the federal government’s response to Hurricane Helene in the southeastern United States have run rampant since the storm made landfall, especially around funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

The claims have become so widespread that FEMA set up a response page to debunk many falsehoods around how disaster funding works and what the agency’s response has been.

As of Sunday, FEMA says it has provided more than $137 million in assistance to six states in the southeast, including 7,000 federal personnel, nearly 15 million meals, 14 million liters of water, 157 generators and more than half a million tarps. Politics In many instances the disaster response to Helene has been politicized The agency also says more than 3,000 North Carolina residents have been rescued or supported by more than 1,200 urban search and rescue personnel, with recovery efforts aided by National Guard and active duty troops. North Carolina has also received $100 million in federal transportation funds to rebuild roads and bridges washed out by the storm.

Republicans, especially former President Donald Trump, have sought to wield the storm as a political tool against Vice President Harris with less than a month to go before Election Day. Trump has repeatedly attacked Harris and President Biden as doing a “bad job” handling the storm’s aftermath without specifics, instead using misleading math to complain about immigration and foreign aid.

“They’re offering them $750 to people whose homes have been washed away,” Trump said Saturday at a rally in Butler, Pa. “And yet we send tens of billions of dollars to foreign countries that most people have never heard of. They’re offering them $750. They’ve been destroyed. These people have been destroyed.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: disaster; factcheck; factless; fema; gaslighting; helene; hurricane; lyingleft; misinformation; northcarolina; npr; stephenfowler; stephenisfowl
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Claims 4 refer trucks of bodies, probably at least 1,000 people https://www.bitchute.com/video/WrH9061JLrt2

Claims FEMA helicopters blocking runway used for private aid.

1 posted on 10/07/2024 4:49:12 PM PDT by xxqqzz
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To: xxqqzz

Sorry,

https://www.bitchute.com/video/b7sRut2lwvx1


2 posted on 10/07/2024 4:49:43 PM PDT by xxqqzz
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To: xxqqzz

“You can trust us, we’re the government!”


3 posted on 10/07/2024 4:50:45 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: xxqqzz

More like CYA.


4 posted on 10/07/2024 4:51:47 PM PDT by McGruff (Ask everyone, Are you better off than you were four years ago?)
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To: reasonisfaith

The first solid premise we can base our conclusions on is:

THE GOVERNMENT IS CORRUPT.


5 posted on 10/07/2024 4:51:54 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: xxqqzz

npr has found Jesus!


6 posted on 10/07/2024 4:52:43 PM PDT by xoxox
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The same people who took 3 years to admit Hunter Biden’s laptop was real and not russian disinformation. Who do I beleive?


7 posted on 10/07/2024 4:53:16 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: xxqqzz

“They’re offering them $750 to people whose homes have been washed away,” Trump said Saturday at a rally in Butler, Pa. “And yet we send tens of billions of dollars to foreign countries that most people have never heard of. They’re offering them $750. They’ve been destroyed. These people have been destroyed.”


THIS ⬆️ is what NPR calls ‘misinformation’ ??

They can’t handle the truth.


8 posted on 10/07/2024 4:53:20 PM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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The second solid premise is:

A majority of management-level government workers are left-leaning.


9 posted on 10/07/2024 4:53:28 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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Another solid premise is:

LEFTISTS HAVE NO OBJECTIVE BASIS FOR THEIR MORAL CHOICES.


10 posted on 10/07/2024 4:54:09 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: xxqqzz

Howwver they spin this, FEMA passes out hundreds of millions to citizens of foreign countries.


11 posted on 10/07/2024 4:55:05 PM PDT by AAABEST (That time Washington DC became a corrupted, existential threat to us all...)
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137 million to storm victims,
150.7 BILLION on illegals.
So, they can spare me the violins.


12 posted on 10/07/2024 4:55:15 PM PDT by lucky american (Had enough yet?)
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As a result of having no real moral foundation, the leftists in government are not deterred when their political agenda causes death and destruction.

Particularly when they believe they can get away with it.


13 posted on 10/07/2024 4:55:41 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: reasonisfaith
LEFTISTS HAVE NO OBJECTIVE BASIS FOR THEIR MORAL CHOICES.

Sure they do. "What will help me win/make the most money?"

14 posted on 10/07/2024 4:56:08 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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National Panhandler Radio
15 posted on 10/07/2024 4:57:18 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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FEMA has been so concerned about the victims, that they fought Elon Musk’s Starlink. Wouldn’t want those people communicating with the outside world would they?


16 posted on 10/07/2024 4:57:37 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: Steely Tom

You mean steal.


17 posted on 10/07/2024 4:58:42 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: xxqqzz

NPR is generally fact free on things that tend to the Political.


18 posted on 10/07/2024 4:59:05 PM PDT by Paladin2
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NPR is the government, so the government is fact checking itself.


19 posted on 10/07/2024 5:00:05 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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To: xxqqzz

Didn’t NPR push the hoax that Donald Trump colluded with Russia to win the election?


20 posted on 10/07/2024 5:00:05 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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