Re: Dumbfucked conservaturds

Mittens Romney <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]: 

> Baxter wrote:
>> Dumbphuckery has won the day. We’re two weeks removed from a major
>> disaster and two days away from another. A time to potentially
>> demonstrate our strength and resilience as a nation and a people. But
>> noooo….
> 
> 
> That's life for real American citizens, but not illegals.
> 
> 
> https://x.com/Maga4liberty/status/1844029264854925400
> 
> A $50 million FEMA facility for Illegals with a 800 bed capacity is 
> sitting EMPTY and is right down the road from Asheville in Greensboro!
> Why isn't this place being used for the people who actually need it?
> 
That's a whole separate funding pot, not connected to their emergency 
budget.
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Here are the facts: Current FEMA funding for migrants does not come at 
disaster relief’s expense. Neither of FEMA’s two programs for migrants 
uses money from the agency’s Disaster Relief Fund, which is primarily 
used after natural disasters. Congress funds the migrant and disaster 
relief programs separately. And Trump’s administration, not Biden’s, 
shifted FEMA funding — including money from the Disaster Relief Fund — to 
address immigration. 

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/politifact/2024/10/09/trump
s-claim-that-biden-wiped-out-fema-aid-for-immigration-is-
absurd/75470700007/

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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.

https://cis.org/Arthur/Making-Sense-FEMAs-MigrantPayment-Schemes