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Democrats Cover Up Reckless Spending
to Play Politics with FEMA Relief
Democrats Cover Up Reckless Spending to Play Politics with FEMA Relief
Democrats and establishment media are blaming FEMA's poor Hurricane Helene response on Republicans who oppose unlimited funding for the agency.
www.breitbart.com
Democrats and establishment media are blaming FEMA’s poor Hurricane Helene response on Republicans who opposed a lame duck spending bill – despite FEMA’s administrator stating unequivocally the agency has all the money it needs.
The Kamala Harris campaign has led the finger pointing at Republicans who voted against a September funding bill that included appropriations for FEMA – among hundreds of billions for additional projects across the federal government, much of which the Republicans view as wasteful, woke, and contributing to the nation’s poor economy.
That September bill easily passed, and the FEMA administer has made clear that however one might judge its initial response to Helene, funding is not to blame.
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Republicans opposed the legislation for a number of reasons, most notably its funding for a grab bag of leftwing giveaways.
The bill included tens of billions of dollars in research grants from science agencies to universities for initiatives for “equity,” DEI, “gender-affirming care,” and fighting “racism” in fields of study like geoscience and engineering.
Funding in the bill also included billions of dollars in grants to nonprofits that enable illegal immigration by providing social services, transportation across the country, and connections to employment. Conservatives also point out the infrastructure programs funded by the bill disproportionately fund urban transit in Democrat strongholds, subsidize “road diets” and bike lanes that create congestion for drivers, and fund road-destroying EV buses.
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FEMA has long been a bipartisan target of Congress, which has accused it of mishandling multiple disasters, most notably Hurricane Katrina. The agency has also come under fire in recent years for using funds to aid illegal immigrants under the justification of humanitarian assistance.
Those criticisms are likely to continue.
FEMA’s response to Helene is likely to continue for many years and cost billions of dollars, and the time to measure both the agency’s full efforts and Congressional response and oversight will come at a later date.
Commentary:
Another big pile of steaming Bull Scatology.Another from Democrats.
FEMA is holding BILLIONS in a slush fund that originally were funds from disasters from 2012 and earlier. It would take nothing at all to redesignate the funds into the current disaster budget.
This entire Biden administration has been a colossal disaster. This is just the latest example of their incompetence.. A total Bindem failure.
Gas anyone else noticed that every time Democrat Neo-Marxists screw the pooch badly they always blame Republicans or lately MAGA?
If the Republicans were as devious and powerful as Neo-Marxists claim, they’d never lose an election.
Loyal Americans know that Democrats own the executive branch and the Senate. This presently is their power .
Mother Nature has caught this administration with it's hand in the cookie jar. They are using any excuse they can come up with. Ask any 4 year old and they will tell you.
If you listen to the exuses shouted from the White House, KJP, and the Quisling Media talking heads, Democrats are not responsible for anything, unless it’s one of those rare events when they get something right.
