That billion was well-spent, importing and courting illegal non-citizen voters.
So what if some Americans died?
FEMA runs out of money as Trump Jr. blasts admin for diverting $1 billion to illegal immigrants
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has warned that FEMA "does not have the funds to make it through [hurricane] season" as it continues to respond to natural disasters. Donald Trump Jr. blasted the Biden administration in response, criticizing it for diverting nearly $1 billion in FEMA funds to shelter illegal immigrants, arguing the money should have been allocated for disaster relief efforts.
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Mayorkas, during a press briefing on Wednesday, stated that FEMA "does not have the funds to make it through the season" as the agency grapples with ongoing disaster recovery from Hurricane Helene.
Trump Jr. accused the Biden administration of depleting FEMA's emergency response funds by funneling nearly $1 billion into the Shelter and Services Program (SSP), which supports illegal immigrants.
Critics, including Trump Jr., argue that the diverted funds could have been better used for disaster relief, particularly as FEMA faces a shortfall during an intense hurricane season.
Meanwhile, state and federal officials have been leaving American citizens stranded in the floods.
Jonathan Howard with Florida State Guard Special Missions Unit assisting with aerial recovery in North Carolina following the damage of Hurricane Helene, delivered a video message explaining what is really happening on the ground.
"I had my team up here working as well. Here's the problem. I'm going to tell you everything that's happening from the ground, what I'm actually seeing, because what they're telling you is complete bullsht on the news and these politicians don't have a fcking clue and they're lying," Howard said.
"I don't know why they're doing it," Howard said of the federal response. "I don't know what kind of conspiracy I've heard so many things, whatever you want to come up with, but they are literally allowing these people to fcking die in the mountains right now because we can't get helicopters. They got money for everything else in the fcking world right now."
I'll say this now. I'll say it at the end of the video. The only thing I need from this video is helicopters.
If I have helicopters, I can save lives. Without helicopters, I can't reach these people. It doesn't matter how many chainsaws and trucks I got, I can't get to them.
They're 10 miles in, 20 miles, 40 miles in the mountains. There's no way to get with them or even communicate with them. I am literally flying around in a civilian helicopter looking for SOS messages carved in the mud or painted on the ground and we're dropping down and saving them.
What got me fired up about this was yesterday, me and my team did the rescue of that 11-day-year-old baby and all these government officials and social media, they're showing that video, that pictures and video of that rescue and claiming that they have some government help with that. Even USA Today wrote an article about it saying it was a Florida National Guard that went and got it with a helicopter. No, it was me, my buddy Charlie, and a civilian named Zeb with his own personal helicopter out of Wilmington, North Carolina.
Without that civilian, that baby would be dead. And the old lady we went and rescued after that, she'd be dead too because she had one day left of oxygen. No one was going to go get them.
I will tell you when we go up in the air, I probably see 40 civilian helicopters. I might see two Blackhawks, National Guard, military, whatever they are. That's it.
No one's out there doing rescues. I have my entire team up here from Florida right now and they have no ability to go rescue these people other than what they can drive to. And the people that are in dire need, they're out in the mountains.
They are completely cut off. Now I will say I spoke to my Congresswoman down in Florida and she's a badass and she made a bunch of phone calls and now we got two contracted 60s coming up here tomorrow, which is great. I love that, but like I still don't understand why we don't have more helicopters.
Like we'll get a lot of work done with that, but there's no, there's no military. There's no, no one's doing nothing. I just, it blows my mind.
And they're not even allowing people to see what's really going on. One of our friends yesterday, they were actually escorting CNN down to Lake Lure and they wouldn't even let CNN, the sheriff department would not let them go videotape the bad areas of how destructive it is. I don't know why they don't want to show you all that, but I mean, it is bad.
He says that his public pressure campaign has worked, and now civilians are donating their helicopters to save people. I guess the feds still have their thumbs up their asses, booking hotel rooms for illegals.