Feds Say There’s No Money Left to Respond to Hurricanes — After FEMA Spent $1.4B on Migrants
October 4th, 2024— cryptogon (@cryptogon) October 6, 2024
— cryptogon (@cryptogon) October 6, 2024
Via: New York Post:
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas set off outrage Wednesday when he told reporters that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) “does not have the funds” to see Americans through the rest of this Atlantic hurricane season — after the agency spent more than $1.4 billion since the fall of 2022 to address the migrant crisis.
“We are meeting the immediate needs with the money that we have,” Mayorkas said during a press gaggle on Air Force One en route to tour damage from Hurricane Helene in South and North Carolina.
“We are expecting another hurricane hitting,” he added. “We do not have the funds. FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season and what — what is imminent.”
Critics pointed out that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) allocated $640.9 million this year in FEMA-administered funds to aid state and local governments coping with the influx of asylum seekers — though Mayorkas’ office fired back late Thursday, insisting that those funds couldn’t be used for hurricane relief because Congress authorized them specifically for the migrant crisis.
General Flynn says that the claim that there’s no money to help with the thousands of Americans wiped out by Helene, is bullshit. He says that both the Speaker of the House and the President have the power to immediately redirect monies that were earmarked for others (such as the illegal aliens and the endless war machine overseas). See this recent video interview with Flynn — https://rumble.com/v5hiny5-general-flynn-exposes-the-dark-truth-about-whats-happening-in-appalachia-th.html
There’s always money for whatever they want to do. Where’s all the money coming from for child trafficking?
“We are expecting another hurricane hitting,” [Mayorkas] added. “We do not have the funds. FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season and what — what is imminent.”
In other words, next time, we won’t help at all, and next time will be worse. Is that a threat, or a promise? (as the saying goes)
Oct 5th, 2024: 5PM Tropical Update
?Tropical Storm #Milton is forecast to quickly intensify & is expected to be at or near major hurricane strength as it nears FL.
?? HAVE A PLAN!
? Please listen to your local officials!
#FLwx pic.twitter.com/OH97SDgvub
The only truly reliable plan is to leave. But people won’t walk away from their jobs for a storm that may or may not hit them.
South FL is said to average 6 ft above sea level. It’s actually more like 4 ft with some humps scattered around the Everglades. An additional problem is that it has insufficient drainage. It was normal when I was a kid for water to be 3′ deep around drainage grates in the streets of Miami just from a heavy rain. Everybody just stayed home for some hours or a day after the rain till the water got low enough to drive through. In a hurricane, we stayed home for a few days.
Anyone in FL who doesn’t know the history should look up the Miami hurricane of 1926 and the hurricane at Key Largo in 1935.
What happens to a nuclear power plant when the land it sits on goes underwater? Fukushima? FL has three, to working and one shut down.
The weather news says two more hurricanes are building up right after this one.