About that FEMA money that isn’t available because it was given to illegals
Here are some details:
The FEMA Emergency Food and Shelter Program (ESFP). The FEMA migrant-spending program began as an offshoot of a Reagan-era plan called the Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP). EFSP had the goal of providing aid to homeless Americans, most notably the elderly, handicapped, families with kids, Native Americans, and (especially) veterans.
That was essentially where ESFP funding went until a border crisis in the late spring and early summer of 2019. More than 111,000 adult migrants travelling with children in “family units” (FMUs) and unaccompanied alien children (UACs) crossed the border illegally that May, and President Trump needed additional money to get the kids out of CBP facilities.
One would assume money for needy migrant children would have prompted a rapid bipartisan response, but congressional Democrats left Trump twisting in the political wind for weeks before they gave him the funding he needed. …
Trump asked for ESFP to be ended in his FY 2020 and FY 2021 budget requests as duplicative of other federal activities, but as Reagan himself explained, “a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth”. Consequently, ESFP received $125 million in FY 2020 and $130 million in FY 2021.
After taking office, President Biden pushed for and received spending legislation called the “American Rescue Plan” (ARP).
ARP appropriated $400 million for what FEMA termed “regular EFSP” (the one Reagan approved), and an additional $110 million for “humanitarian relief to families and individuals encountered by” DHS. The temporary ESFP for migrants (called “ESFP-H”, for “humanitarian”) from the 2019 supplemental was now a line item.
The program then grew. There’s much much more at the link; it’s difficult to summarize, so I suggest you go there to read it. It’s the most complete treatment of the subject that I’ve seen so far.
There’s also the fact that the Biden/Harris administration seems to feel we have plenty of money to help Lebanon with its “humanitarian needs”:
The people of Lebanon are facing an increasingly dire humanitarian situation. I am concerned about the security and well-being of civilians suffering in Lebanon and will continue working to help meet the needs of all civilians there.
To that end, the United States will provide…
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) October 5, 2024
Most of the responses there are brutal and well-deserved.
What is this administration thinking? Who in the White House is thinking it’s a good idea to use emergency funds to settle immigrants? Maybe it’s someone who is hoping those immigrants will be Democrat voters in four more years, but even so, this is a transparent abuse of our system wherein the House of Representatives decides how to spend money. What we have now is the White House and executive agencies ignoring what the Congress intended with money they appropriated, and doing what they think will gain them votes. Despicable.
It might help a tad if Hezbullah wasn’t embedding itself—and its huge supplies of ammo—within the civilian population. But who really cares about that? (Who even mentions the word “Hezbullah”? Oh I forgot! Hezbullah are civilians, too….)
By the way, are the Lebanese dropping like flies from Israel-caused starvation yet?
No matter. BUILD THAT PIER!!
One might think the Democrats are sick and tired of lying.
One would be very, very wrong:
“NY ballot measure aimed at protecting abortion could allow illegal migrants to vote, critics”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/new-yorks-prop-one-trojan-horse-epic-proportions
Opening graf:
No, they’re not tired at all.
They revel in this crap…
They luxuriate in it.
And they won’t be satisfied until the country is entirely unrecognizable.
Totally ruined.
Destroyed.
Transformed.
First f#%k up the economy.
Then f#%k up the kids.
Then f#%k up their families.
Then f#%k up their neighborhoods.
Then f#%k up their cities.
Works like a charm.
(Not to worry: there’s still a whole lot left to f#%k up…)
“California Faces Wave Of Lawsuits Over Gender Identity Notification In Schools”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/california-faces-wave-lawsuits-over-gender-identity-notification-schools
Democrats are not just liars. They are stupid, ignorant, lazy, or evil, often in combination.
They make up the vast majority of the federal work force.
I think America is slowly dying, being strangled by its own government. Reminds me of czarist Russia before Lenin.