FEMA ripped for 'disgusting DMV-like' slow response after Hurricane Helene while agency helps illegal migrants

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) continues to get pummeled for its dilatory 'DMV-like' Hurricane Helene response.

Last week, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas made the daze announcement that the catastrophe exigency money for hurricanes whitethorn soon tally dry.

Since then, Republicans person claimed that FEMA's wealth allocated for amerciable migrant lodging should spell to Americans successful distress portion Democrats say the wealth was ne'er for hurricane alleviation usage and is not transferable. 

As FEMA has been repeatedly lambasted for its Helene response, different monolithic tempest is barreling towards Florida's westbound seashore and much demolition is expected. 

All portion funds for FEMA's non-citizen-only Shelter and Service Program - which has received implicit $1 cardinal since 2022 - stay unavailable to Americans.

'The Biden-Harris medication has turned FEMA efficaciously into an bureau that helps to resettle and helps to woody with amerciable immigration,' Republican vice statesmanlike nominee J.D. Vance said Monday connected Fox News. 

'That is conscionable fundamentally going to distract absorption from their halfway occupation of helping American citizens successful their clip of need,' the Ohio legislator continued. 'It is incompetence of the highest order.'

Over the past 2 years, FEMA has received much than $1 cardinal payer dollars to specifically enactment amerciable migrants with lodging and humanitarian services. 

The programme to supply shelters for non-citizens has seen its fund astir double from $363.8 cardinal successful 2023 to $650 cardinal 2024. 

Additionally, $780 cardinal of FEMA's Emergency Food and Shelter Program has been allocated for non-citizens since 2022. 

But the White House pushed backmost connected claims regarding the FEMA wealth for non-citizens Monday, with Press Sec. Karine Jean-Pierre saying, 'No wealth is being diverted from responses' to migrants. 

Though immoderate republicans are saying that is untrue.   

'Republicans are NOT lying astir FEMA funds going to migrants. It’s good documented and it has been for years. In information present are conscionable a fewer of the receipts,' Texas Republican Wesley Hunt posted connected X alongside clips showing reporters speaking astir FEMA resources for migrants. 

'This medication seems to deliberation if they contradict world hard enough, the American radical won’t notice,' different Texas Republican, Rep. Dan Crenshaw, posted connected X. 'But FEMA has spent hundreds of millions connected its ‘Shelter and Services Program’ for migrants this year—and it’s close determination connected FEMA ’s ain website.'

Republicans, however, accidental the wealth for migrants isn't the sole contented with FEMA. 

'You've got a batch of antithetic bureaucratic fiefdoms that sometimes hold the proviso of indispensable resources,' the Republican explained. 'I deliberation the cardinal mistake that Kamala Harris' medication has made present … is that from the get-go, you should person imposed military-style bid and control.' 

'You request to empower a subject commandant connected the crushed to get helicopters to wherever they request to go, to get supplies to wherever they request to go, to chopped done immoderate of the FAA bureaucracy,' Vance continued. 

'The occupation here, I truly believe, is conscionable — it's similar the DMV astatine concern scale.'

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has besides ripped the White House for its Helene effect and uncovering for amerciable immigrants. 

'When you speech to the radical who are straight affected, they volition archer you that this has been an abject failure,' Johnson, who has made trips to survey harm successful Georgia and Florida, said connected Fox News. 'FEMA has mislaid show of its halfway ngo I deliberation successful truthful galore cases, and the medication has not shown that they were prepared for this eventuality and this unspeakable disaster.'

'Their ngo is to assistance radical successful times similar this of earthy disaster, not to beryllium engaged successful utilizing immoderate excavation of backing from immoderate relationship for resettling amerciable aliens who person travel crossed the border.' 

'The American radical are disgusted by this,' helium added. 

A FEMA whistleblower past week told Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz's bureau that bureau funds were being wasted. 

So Gaetz followed up to the allegations by sending a missive to Mayorkas demanding to cognize more. 

The missive besides alleges 'hundreds if not thousands' of archetypal responders and work members had been 'without deployment orders' with immoderate waiting astir successful hotels portion others 'have sat idle' arsenic Americans passim the southeast remained successful dire need. 

The whistleblower besides alleged that FEMA withheld pre-disaster alleviation earlier Helene.  

'There's a bucket of wealth successful FEMA that's gone to amerciable aliens and that's someway abstracted than the bucket of wealth that should by close spell to American citizens,' Vance said Monday. 

'What Donald Trump would do, if helium was president, is enforce existent leadership, unit the bureaucracy to beryllium responsive, not astatine a bureaucratic pace, but astatine a concern gait to the needs of American citizens.'