Monday, October 7, 2024

J.D. Vance cuts to the quick of the problem with disaster agency FEMA's resources going to the illegals

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Monica Showalter  . . ."When Fox News journalists brought up that Republican complaints about FEMA blowing its budget on illegals and not having enough cash to help hurricane survivors, were being met by Democrats retorts that that was false owing to the federal budget structure, Vance did a pretty good job of getting to the quick of the problem and sorting the matter out." . . .

 . . ."How was that money really spent? Florida's Sens. Rick Scott and Marco Rubio first noticed the problem last May.

The bottom line here, is that the agency has lost focus. That has cut into its ability to achieve its core mission, which is disaster relief. It was bad in fire-hit Lahaina, Hawaii, very obvious in this Hurricane Helene aftermath, and now with a new hurricane is on the way, with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas saying they may not have enough money to respond to that. That's an agency that has done everything but pay attention to what it's supposed to do.

J.D. Vance had it right on that, and in his later suggestion that the military needed to be called in to coordinate the response. He's a good man for President Trump to have in a storm, the biggest of which will be in draining the Washington swamp in 2025.

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