In a cynical budget negotiation tactic, the White house is now trying to push through a $40 billion "Supplemental" funding bill that holds bailout money for FEMA hostage to sending billions more to Ukraine with insufficient accountability.
If the White House tactic works, and Congress coughs up enough aid to Ukraine that rescue money for FEMA can get through, hundreds of millions of that funding won't go to disaster-afflicted Americans, but to providing housing, food, health care and transportation for illegal immigrants through grants to activist NGOs and "Sanctuary" cities.
Even though FEMA grants are meant to help taxpaying Americans prepare for and cope with hurricanes, fires and floods, the Biden administration has used these same funds to pay activist NGOs to settle migrants illegally in the United States.
FEMA's Emergency Food and Shelter Program is already being siphoned for over $332 million "To assist communities receiving noncitizens released from custody," which means housing migrants here illegally at the border, then transporting them to places like New York City.
Big city mayors gripe about a few buses sent by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, but the main train delivering migrants to their sidewalks is driven by DHS, using FEMA money.
FEMA grant money, unlike its Disaster Relief and Flood Insurance programs, doesn't require the president to declare a federal disaster-which would at least highlight the self-defeating results of his policies.
In a recent hearing before Congress, FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell tried to "Clarify for the record that FEMA is not an immigration agency." Yet she also proclaimed her support for Biden's Southwest Border Contingency Fund, which would channel money to FEMA to spend on services to immigrants here illegally.
No comments:
Post a Comment