Comment on Feds say there's no money left for hurricanes after FEMA spent $640M on migrants

SeanBrently@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Your link does not contradict the claim in this post’s title or body.

  Your link says that FEMA’s disaster relief money has not been reallocated.

  The NYPost story linked backs up the claims in this post’s title, namely that:

  • FEMA has spent $600m+ to house migrants
  • FEMA does not have sufficient funds to cover hurricane relief

  More specifically, the article claims:

  • Congress and Biden administration channeled $600m+ through FEMA to aid migrants (note the article attributes this to how money was allocated to FEMA, not to money being reallocated within FEMA)
  • FEMA has spend $4m on hurricane relief
  • FEMA does not have the funds to get through the season (per the claim of DHS Secretary)

  I’m on mobile so I don’t have the ability to easily cross reference the article and your posted link while writing this. So if I’ve made a mistake in this interpretation and reporting, please let me know.

  My point though, is that the claim marked false in your direct FEMA link is not the same claim this article is making.

  • Your link says, essentially: “no, funds were not reallocated from FEMA account A to FEMA account B”
  • The article says, essentially: “$600m+ of funds were put into FEMA account A; $4m has been spent from FEMA account B; there’s no money for B”

  The article may be correct or incorrect, but its claims are not in contradiction to the claims in your link; they are simply different claims.

  The overall synthesis of the two sources, (your link and the article), is that money’s been spent on migrants, no more money’s available for hurricane victims, but that FEMA’s hands are tied on this because Congress controls what FEMA spends on the two categories.

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  • SeanBrently@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Thank you for your service. I confess I did not read the article carefully. I see it is congress that holds a fair bit of responsibility for this situation. It is interesting to note that some of those who voted against extending funding to FEMA represent states that were hard hit by Helene.

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    • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Did they vote against extending funding to FEMA for immigrant support, or did they vote against extending funding for disaster relief?

      One thing this article makes clear is that funding to FEMA is not a monolith.

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