99 percent of Hurricane Matthew aid requested by NC denied by Trump administration

[kpete]

Updated: May. 10, 2017 at 2:56 PM PDT

RALEIGH, NC (WNCN) - The State of North Carolina requested $929 million from the federal government to help with costs associated with Hurricane Matthew, but the state will be receiving far less than that, according to an announcement by Gov. Roy Cooper.

North Carolina will receive only $6.1 million from the Trump administration. That's 99 percent less than the requested amount.

In a letter Cooper sent to the president and other officials today, he expressed "shock and disappointment in the lack of federal funding for Hurricane Matthew recovery efforts."

https://www.wbtv.com/story/35398478/99-percent-of-hurricane-matthew-aid-requested-by-nc-denied-by-trump-administration/

[Emile]

1. That's because he was diverting money from FEMA to immigration.

Building his wall

[malaise]

2. Here we call that hurricane politics

Benefits and spoils as political favors and none for non-supporters

[dalton99a]

3. Kick

[-misanthroptimist]

4. Just further proof that...

...Republicans are no longer Americans.

[SharonClark]

5. Perfect for a compare and contrast ad - 2017 response vs 2024 response.

[yorkster]

6. Can't beieve I either didn't know this or forgot it.

Infuriating.

[Norbert]

7. Whatever they say about Kamala

You can be sure trump did.

Every accusation is an admission.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. No, Biden didn't take FEMA relief money to use on migrants -- but Trump did - The Washington Post

Everything TFG does is both a projection and a confession

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/04/no-biden-didnt-take-fema-relief-money-use-migrants-trump-did/

Trump has a habit of assuming other politicians act in the same way as he would. So we wondered why he would accuse Biden of raiding the FEMA disaster fund to handle undocumented migrants.

It turns out that’s because he did this. In 2019, the Trump administration, in the middle of hurricane season, told Congress that it was taking $271 million from DHS programs, including $155 million from the disaster fund, to pay for immigration detention space and temporary hearing locations for asylum seekers who had been forced to wait in Mexico. “The U.S. is facing a security and humanitarian crisis on the Southern border,” the administration said in its notice that it was redirecting the funds.

The monthly reports issued by the FEMA disaster fund show $38 million was plucked and given to Immigration and Customs Enforcement in August that year — just before the prime storm period of September and October.

The Trump campaign did not respond to questions about Trump’s actions in 2019.

The Pinocchio Test
Trump falsely claims FEMA has run out of disaster money — and then falsely says that’s because money instead was spent on migrants. There is no evidence the Biden administration spent FEMA disaster money on migrants. Rather, that’s what Trump did.

He earns Four Pinocchios.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. Look at what one of Trump's people posted ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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