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Fema spends $4.9bn on Covid in one month — 20 times more than on Hurricane Helene aid
« on: October 11, 2024, 07:28:36 am »
The Telegraph by  Joe Barnes. Rozina Sabur 10/8/2024


The Federal Emergency Management Agency budgeted 20-times more cash for its response to Covid last month than it spent on Hurricane Helene aid.

Official documents reveal that Fema set aside $4.9 billion in coronavirus aid in September, although the pandemic was officially declared over more than 12 months ago.

The figure was in contrast to the $210 million initially allocated to support victims of the tropical storm that ripped through North Carolina late last month.

A recent report found Fema “has challenges calculating and reporting consistent and accurate timeframes for hiring”. It identified staff burnout, partly triggered by challenges around Covid.

The hurricane is forecast to be one of the worst storms to rip through Florida in 100 years, and is set to hit some areas already razed by Helene.

According to official documents seen by The Telegraph, Fema made around $19.8 billion available for its response to Covid in the 2024 fiscal year, which ran from October 2023 through to last month.

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Offline PeteS in CA

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Re: Fema spends $4.9bn on Covid in one month — 20 times more than on Hurricane Helene aid
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2024, 12:09:57 pm »
How? For what? I'm not a Covid-minimizer or denier, but IMO Covid has since 2022 pretty much declined into a seasonal thing like the flu or colds.
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If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"?

Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.

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Re: Fema spends $4.9bn on Covid in one month — 20 times more than on Hurricane Helene aid
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2024, 12:18:09 pm »
The Covid emergency officially ended on May 11, 2023.  WTF?

Looks like Dems are using FEMA as Mayorkas' slush fund for illegal immigration.  Never let a good crisis go to waste.
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Re: Fema spends $4.9bn on Covid in one month — 20 times more than on Hurricane Helene aid
« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2024, 06:50:53 am »

Top Republican demands answers as billions in FEMA relief are still going to COVID: 'Legitimate concern'
Story by Charles Creitz • 16h

EXCLUSIVE: A top Republican lawmaker sent a scathing letter demanding several facts and figures from FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell after discovering nearly half of a recent congressional appropriation for disaster relief was spent on non-hurricane-related interests.

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, said that FEMA lifted its August restrictions on immediate needs funding (INF) on Oct. 1 – right after Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida.
 
While recently-criticized FEMA funds used for migrant issues is formally partitioned from disaster relief (DRF), Roy said COVID-19 response-related funding falls in the disaster relief pot.

"The American people have legitimate concerns regarding the availability of FEMA funding to respond to these hurricanes and future events in the near term," wrote Roy, who sits on the House Budget Committee.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/top-republican-demands-answers-as-billions-in-fema-relief-are-still-going-to-covid-legitimate-concern/ar-AA1s6Z3m?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=7b3877618f3b419da5640c00feba96fe&ei=86
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Re: Fema spends $4.9bn on Covid in one month — 20 times more than on Hurricane Helene aid
« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2024, 06:51:50 am »
Hurricane COVID?
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