Mayorkas Says FEMA Does Not Have Enough Money to Make It Through Hurricane Season as the Government Spends Wildly on Migrants; Feds Say There’s No Money Left to Respond to Hurricanes — After FEMA Spent $1.4B On Migrants

Mayorkas Says FEMA Does Not Have Enough Money to Make It Through Hurricane Season as the Government Spends Wildly on Migrants:

DHS Chief Alejandro Mayorkas is being blasted for saying that FEMA is running out of money to help Americans in need, even as the government has spent billions to fly migrants into and around the country and on feeding, housing, and clothing them, all at taxpayer expense.

As the Southeast reels from the disastrous effects of Hurricane Helene, many are slamming the absenteeism of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as millions struggle to recover from the devastation.

Hundreds of thousands of Haitians, for instance, are flooding into towns in Louisiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and many other states after the Biden-Harris administration loosened federal immigration restrictions to allow millions of migrants who would otherwise be labeled “illegal” to freely enter the country.

Haitians are flooding small town America, drawn to those communities by low-paying jobs and federal housing subsidies.

This flood of migrants and their housing subsides featured as a topic during the recent Vice-Presidential debate, when GOP nominee JD Vance said that the Biden border crisis drives up the cost of housing for regular, everyday Americans. It is a point that CBS moderators attempted to debunk during the debate, but one that has been substantiated as 100 percent true.

Many — and perhaps most — U.S. states are drowning in the costs of Biden’s migrants, including New York, Illinois, and Colorado.

Amid all this, Mayorkas is taking heat for his claim that FEMA does not have enough money to make it through hurricane season.

“We are meeting the immediate needs with the money that we have,” Mayorkas said this week. “We are expecting another hurricane hitting. We do not have the funds. FEMA does not have the finds to make it through the season.”

But this is a very different tune than Mayorkas was singing three months ago when he said, “FEMA is tremendously prepared.” —>READ MORE HERE

Feds say there’s no money left to respond to hurricanes — after FEMA spent $1.4B on migrants

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.

“This is easy. Mayorkas and FEMA — immediately stop spending money on illegal immigration resettlement and redirect those funds to areas hit by the hurricane. Put Americans first,” Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted Wednesday in response to the DHS chief.

“Yeah!” agreed Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX.

Abbott is a top critic of Mayorkas’ mass parole of asylum seekers into the US after President Biden repudiated former President Donald Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy — with the governor busing migrants to Democrat-led jurisdictions such as New York City, forcing local budget cuts to house them.

Over two years, more than $1.4 billion has been committed from FEMA-administered programs to support non-federal entities that are taking care of migrants.

DHS allocated $780 million for the migrant crisis last year initially through the FEMA Emergency Food and Shelter Program, which funds relief not associated with natural disasters, and then through the new FEMA Shelter and Services Program, which was authorized in late 2022 by Congress to respond to the migrant crisis. —>READ MORE HERE

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