Where has all the FEMA money gone? Over $1 billion of it was lavished on illegal aliens, meaning that taxpayer money is now not available for the taxpaying citizens suffering after Hurricane Helene.
Trump has been more proactive in fundraising for and visiting hurricane victims than Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have, and now it appears that hundreds of millions of FEMA dollars went to illegal aliens instead of being available for disaster relief.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) website shows that a total of $650 million was made available for the “Shelter and Services Program” in 2024, on top of $363.8 million in 2023. This program “is administered by the FEMA in partnership with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). SSP provides financial support to non-federal entities to provide humanitarian services to noncitizen migrants following their release from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).”
Which is a lot of leftist jargon to say that it was spent on illegal aliens allowed in by the Democrats, hundreds of thousands of which illegals were revealed recently to be criminals (including 13,000+ murderers).
Under the current America-last regime, FEMA does not list emergency preparedness as its top or even its second goal. Woke politics are the order of the day, which is why Americans are suffering now. FEMA’s “Goal 1” is “Instill Equity as a Foundation of Emergency Management.” Marxist DEI now defines emergency response. “Goal 2” is all about unscientific climate alarmism: “Lead Whole of Community in Climate Resilience.” Climate resilience might sound good to a Democrat official, but it certainly doesn’t help people who have lost everything find housing, food, or anything else.
The Federalist CEO Sean Davis highlighted one report about FEMA’s insufficient response: “According to a source in North Carolina, despite 1,000 troops being ready and authorized to respond in NC, FEMA Region 4 and Democrat NC Gov. Roy Cooper haven’t yet written up the mission orders that the troops need in order to be deployed. So those troops are just sitting around twiddling their thumbs. It’s been 7 days since Hurricane Helene made landfall.”
Women for America First executive director Kylie Jane Kremer claimed, “I was just alerted by friends in Greenville, SC that there is a massive failure by FEMA to deploy assets to assist those impacted by Hurricane Helene and they are feeling beyond frustrated and angry. FEMA has 12 MEDVAC EC135 helicopters just sitting there in Greenville. FEMA has 3 C130 cargo planes just sitting there in Greenville. FEMA also has fuel tankers, ambulances and other equipment ready to deploy, sitting in Greenville, as seen in the videos attached.”
The Biden administration announced that hurricane victims “may” receive a “one-time $750 payment.” It’s the same shameful treatment Maui and East Palestine received. Remember when FEMA officials were staying in luxury hotels as displaced Maui residents lacked adequate housing?
I am certainly no advocate of government programs and government handouts on general principles, but it is obvious that the double standard here is egregious, with all of taxpayers’ money going to illegal aliens—not to mention Ukraine and Gazan terrorists— rather than to the taxpayers themselves. Biden’s FEMA squandered a billion dollars that should be available for hurricane victims on illegal aliens who should never have been here to begin with.
I wonder how the response would’ve been different had the hurricane hit Cape Cod?