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Senators fear FEMA ‘entanglement’ with border crisis could hurt disaster response mission
« on: October 04, 2024, 04:15:11 pm »
Senators fear FEMA ‘entanglement’ with border crisis could hurt disaster response mission
The administration has said aid for migrants is not connected to disaster relief
 By Adam Shaw Fox News
Published October 4, 2024 3:37pm EDT

FIRST ON FOX: A group of senators led by Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., is warning the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s "entanglement" with the southern border may have limited its effectiveness in handling emergencies –  just as the Biden administration is pushing back on claims that disaster relief and resettling of migrants are connected.

"FEMA’s continued entanglement in DHS’s efforts to respond to the border crisis could impact its readiness and emergency response mission," the Republican lawmakers write. "Rather than ensuring FEMA is ready to respond to hurricanes and other emergencies, FEMA has been pulled into a border crisis mission."

In the letter obtained by Fox News Digital, the lawmakers expressed concern "on the impact of the ongoing border crisis on [FEMA’s] readiness." They cited remarks this week by DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas warning that FEMA "does not have the funds to make it through the season" and his calls for Congress to convene a special session to consider supplemental funding in the wake of the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene.

Other lawmakers on the letter are Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Roger Marshall, R-Kansas. Lankford is also the ranking member on the Subcommittee on Government Operations and Border Management.

Mayorkas and FEMA have also said they have enough funding to meet "immediate needs," but Mayorkas has said that current funding by continuing resolution does not provide stability.

"We have the immediate needs right now. On a continuing resolution, we have funds, but that is not a stable source of supply, if you will," he said. "This is a multibillion-dollar, multiyear recovery."

Amid those remarks, a number of conservative lawmakers and officials have pointed to approximately $650 million spent by FEMA on grants to non-profits and local authorities to resettle and aid migrants who have come across the southern border. The funding for the Shelter and Services Program (SSP) is congressionally appropriated and requires FEMA to use funding shifted over from Customs and Border Protection (CBP). It’s also a fraction of the more than $30 billion in FEMA’s budget.

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Re: Senators fear FEMA ‘entanglement’ with border crisis could hurt disaster response mission
« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2024, 05:09:13 pm »
Neither FEMA or the money allocated to them for disasters should have anything to do with illegals, they are an administration disaster and not in any way included in FEMA’s mission.

You can imagine the $hitstorm from the democrats and their lapdog media if FEMA funds were used for illegals by a republican administration.

And then there is the almost total blackout in the news about the Biden/Harris/Maydorkas/Fema failure in this disaster…….we all know how the media would be if they were republicans.
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Re: Senators fear FEMA ‘entanglement’ with border crisis could hurt disaster response mission
« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2024, 11:37:59 pm »
"could hurt..."

That ship has sailed (and sunk).

They already HAVE hurt relief efforts.
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Re: Senators fear FEMA ‘entanglement’ with border crisis could hurt disaster response mission
« Reply #3 on: October 05, 2024, 08:51:50 am »
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FEMA paid $360,000 to this extreme left wing advocacy organization for free legal services to illegals. Board member Dan Osheyak is the former Chief Marketing Officer of the Clinton Global Initiative (https://lawyersforgoodgovernment.org/board)
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"Entanglement" is an understatement.
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Re: Senators fear FEMA ‘entanglement’ with border crisis could hurt disaster response mission
« Reply #4 on: October 05, 2024, 10:25:14 am »
That's about one billion dollars of wasted FEMA $$$$ of "entanglement"!
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Re: Senators fear FEMA ‘entanglement’ with border crisis could hurt disaster response mission
« Reply #5 on: October 05, 2024, 12:10:59 pm »
No crap, but very predictable under Biden-Harris admin mass importation of illegal immigrants - oops, uh, I mean "refugees".

Every Federal dollar that was not under lock and key was going to be allocated as discretionary funds towards their liberal pet projects.

No President should have as much discretion to re-allocate appropriated funds, without Congressional approval or authorization, as Biden-Harris Admin has exercised.

What's the point of Congressional bills of appropriation if the President can move monies amongst slush funds at his whim?

FEMA is for "natural disasters", not for covering up the fallout from Biden's "disastrous" Open Border.
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Re: Senators fear FEMA ‘entanglement’ with border crisis could hurt disaster response mission
« Reply #6 on: October 05, 2024, 01:47:26 pm »
You're too late, Jim.
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Re: Senators fear FEMA ‘entanglement’ with border crisis could hurt disaster response mission
« Reply #7 on: October 05, 2024, 03:37:19 pm »
Maybe someone should add up all the money this administration has wasted or stolen using mis-allocated funds from agencies under the guise of DEI, 'education', sensitivity training, legal services, and all those questionable programs running six or seven or more figures which have bugger all to do with the mission they are tasked with, but end up being granted to NGOs and consultants and then follow the money.

In the end, cui bono?

It sure isn't us.

The treasury, the SPR, every bloated agency budget, all looted.

Better check Ft. Knox for tungsten filled bars, while we're at it.
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