Not enough fema funds for Asheville ?

Sounds like congress may need to pass a supplemental spending bill this fall to help states with recovery efforts. Not sure how that’s a “doozy” but ok.

 

Thread title is misleading too. He says they have immediate funding (which will be used in many places affected by the storm beyond just Asheville, NC) but not enough for the rest of hurricane season.

 

Again, you mean. For the 10th time in 20 years including twice under Trump. Always gets funded but sometimes the Republicans like to see the voting returns for the affected areas first.


VERIFY | FEMA has not run out of funding

FEMA implemented a status called Immediate Needs Funding (INF). 2024 makes the tenth time since 2001 that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has implemented the status to help extend the remaining balance of the Disaster Relief Fund (DRF). Under the status called "Immediate Needs Funding," FEMA pauses payments related to Public Assistance (PA) that are not essential for lifesaving or life-sustaining activities.

When FEMA gets an injection of new funding to the DRF from Congress, payments will resume to cover the expense of the paused PA projects.

Since 2001, FEMA has implemented INF status a total of ten times: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2017, 2019, 2023 and 2024.

According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), hurricanes have the largest impact on DRF spending, and FEMA says large responses deplete the fund rapidly. A November 2022 report from the CBO outlines how hurricanes impact the DRF and FEMA's obligations to help communities recover from major disasters.

 

Where was he wrong? Congress typically passes a bill for extra funding and they are on recess

 

My default position until I hear otherwise:

We don't have enough
FEMA funds because they"ve been depleted after being used to pipeline illegals into America.

The Democrat governor of fNorth Carolina is impeding the deployment of military aid to Western Carolina because it ain't Ukraine.

 

Same cause in 2003? 2004? 2005? 2006? 2009? 2010? 2011? 2017? 2019? 2023? And 2024 too?

Hard to figure out what is going on from 5,186 miles away from Western NC eh?

 

Countdown until a MAGAt posts the Russian talking point here about no funds going overseas (meaning Ukraine) while Americans are in need.

 

You were minutes too late. lol Gotta be fast to beat that narrative.

 

If it was the Russian bot, I have it blocked.

 

Good move. It was. But for a blind post you were on the nose.

 

Ukraine but NOT Israel. They can have as much as they want. Important to make that distinction for the MAGAts

 

Russian bots are spreading that talking point all over social media. Shane Matthews loves to say it on his podcast which is pissing me off as he is venturing into politics way too often with his idiot cohosts.

 

Biden used FEMA disaster funds for illegal immigrants:


https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2...er_funding_for_illegal_immigrants_632839.html

 

What?

 

Sorry. I know an image is harder to translate languages.

Homeland Security moves $155 million from FEMA disaster relief for immigration enforcement | CNN Politics

 

Here's a list of who votedagainst FEMA funding days before Helene hit. All Republicans in states needing FEMA


No Democratic lawmakers voted nay.


**North Carolina:**
Representative Dan Bishop, NC 8th District
Senator Ted Budd

**South Carolina:**
Representative Jeff Duncan, SC 3rd District
Representative Russell Fry, SC 7th District
Representative Nancy Mace, SC 1st District
Representative Ralph Norman, SC 5th District
Representative William R. Timmons IV, SC 4th District
Senator Tim Scott

**Georgia:**
Representative Richard McCormick, GA 6th District
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, GA 14th District
Representative Mike Collins, GA 10th District
Representative Andrew S. Clyde, GA 9th District

**Florida:**
Representative Daniel Webster, FL 11th District
Representative Michael Waltz, FL 6th District
Representative Bill Posey, FL 8th District
Representative Cory Mills, FL 7th District
Representative Anna Paulina Luna, FL 13th District
Representative Laurel M. Lee, FL 15th District
Representative Matt Gaetz, FL 11th District
Representative Bryon Donalds, FL 1st District
Representative Kat Cammack, FL 3rd District
Representative Gus M. Bilirakis, FL 12th District
Representative Aaron Bean, FL 4th District
Senator Rick Scott refused to vote

**Tennessee:**
Representative Tim Burchett, TN 2nd District
Representative Andrew Ogles, TN 5th District
Representative John W. Rose, TN 6th District
Senator Marsha Blackburn
Senator Bill Hagerty

 

Apparently you didn't even make it through the first sentence of the article before rushing here to post an incorrect headline.

 

Typical, vote against funding and then bitch that there isn't funding. Thanks gop

 

Even worse this vote wasn't months ago or anything. It was literally right before the hurricane hit