FEMA Better Not Ask for More Money After This Revelation
Matt Vespa
October 08, 2024 6:30 AM
The Federal Emergency Management Agency isn’t running out of money—it’s just that they have no more cash for disaster relief. After Hurricane Helene inflicted catastrophic damage across the southern United States, the agency has been slammed for this announcement. How could it be that FEMA has no more money for hurricane relief? It’s due to this administration diverting cash to assist illegal aliens. They can deny it all they want and push out their talking points—Karine Jean-Pierre made it official from the White House briefing room:
FEMA will ask for more money, but they better not because it’s unnecessary. As it turns out, RealClearInvestigations found that the agency might be sitting on billions in untapped reserves:
While FEMA is expected to ask Congress for new money, budget experts note a surprising fact: FEMA is currently sitting on untapped reserves appropriated for past disasters stretching back decades.
An August report from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General noted that in 2022, FEMA “estimated that 847 disaster declarations with approximately $73 billion in unliquidated funds remained open.”
Drilling down on that data, the OIG found that $8.3 billion of that total was for disasters declared in 2012 or earlier.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/10/08/so-fema-might-be-sitting-on-billions-from-past-reserves-will-they-be-used-n2645858#google_vignette
