Posted on 02/11/2025 1:51:30 PM PST by DFG
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has mismanaged tens of billions of dollars over the years, according to numerous government reports into its spending.
The government agency’s response to COVID, hurricanes, floods and housing migrants have all come under fire for being wasteful and going largely unchecked — as the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been sent in to analyze its spending.
The most recent audit of the embattled disaster response agency claimed it mismanaged nearly $10 billion during the COVID pandemic between 2020 and 2023.
FEMA even approved a grant of $1.1 billion despite it only being supported by only a single piece of paper with no itemized costs, the Jan. 30 audit by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General found.
The request was also “not prepared by a licensed professional engineer or cost-estimating professional,” according to the 36-page report.
The Trump administration has called for a complete overhaul of FEMA, which has a slated budget of $65 billion for fiscal year 2025.
During the pandemic, $1.5 billion was doled out “for one state’s medical staffing” without the proper vetting and “could have been put to better use for other disasters,” the January audit found.
“These issues occurred due to the unprecedented circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and FEMA not following established requirements when delivering public assistance funding,” said the report, which did not name the states which received the FEMA pandemic payments.
It also cited $8.1 billion distributed by FEMA which are “costs that have yet to be determined allowable,” according to the report.
A leading FEMA critic said there is “no doubt” the agency made a mess of COVID disaster relief.
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Where was Congress when all this was going on?
Where were Republicans?
It makes me sick to know they were pretending they didn’t know.
“It makes me sick to know they were pretending they didn’t know.”
No kidding. Somehow I (very naively) thought the damned government was professionally run and fiscally responsible. I knew there was “waste, fraud and abuse” going all the way back to Sen. William Proxmire’s “Golden Fleece” awards. I knew more recently that the gov’t fouled up responses to Palestine, IL, the Hurricanes, the California fires. I knew that EcoHealth was getting money from Fauci and sending it to Wuhan. And hundreds of other examples.
But we all felt powerless to stop it and our Reps and Senators were absolutely useless to fight it.
But I never, ever dreamed it was this bad. Thank God for Trump, Vance and Musk.
BTTT
FEMA is always AWOL.2010 MILLINGTON, TN FLOOD, NAVY BASE TOO. 1 FEMA BUS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VrIVHym7PQ
YIKES!
You got that right. Everything that has come out has pi$$ed me off - but I can't do anything about it. I'm just a country bumpkin in Texas and my representatives, while probably not on the take, had to know this was going on - and they did nothing.
You know where! They were getting theirs too...
“my representatives, while probably not on the take, had to know this was going on - and they did nothing.”
Ditto my Rep in North Idaho. He seems to be a sit-back and don’t rock the boat guy.
“Where was Congress when all this was going on?
Where were Republicans?”
Follow the money and all will be revealed. Don’t follow the money and the nation ultimately collapses.
Promise, and later Ron and Rand Paul, put out these lists and then DO NOTHING about it and then vote for the giant omnibus budgets that put this fraud in.
Talk, talk, talk.
Republicans are mostly as useless as Democrats.
Proxmire not promise. I edited it twice yet it still posted wrong.
I knew autocorrect was doing that to “Proxmire.”
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