Trump shifted $10,000,000 from FEMA to ICE budgets

[Stonepounder]

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Source: MSNBC Rachael Maddow

Sen. Merkley just showed the documents showing that and that Homeland Security has verified. Live on RMS just now.

Read more: Link to source

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Just at the beginning of hurricane season, evidently to fund more 'internment camps'.

[Laurian]

1. He said any shift if more than 5 million requires that the chair

of the Committee be notified. Homeland Security or Appropriations? Apparently that happened.

I’m beyond pissed.

[Liberty Belle]

19. Meanwhile Calif. wildfire victims are struggling, too - no mention of this in the story.

Lots of misery all over the nation from disasters and this monster spends money that should have been used to alleviate suffering to cause children to be caged and suffer even more.

[Mrs. Overall]

2. Absolutely horrible.

[benld74]

3. BASTA!!

[wiggs]

4. They wanted to impeach Obama because he extended the deadline to sign up for

ACA coverage, due to website issues.

[bronxiteforever]

5. Good God. Kick and recommend for visibility.

Intentional malfeasance.

[lunasun]

6. More hate for his magats. Not that it was syphoned off to private firms $$ for camps etc. ,but that

"those people coming here took all your FEMA money folks"

[bluestarone]

7. Bunch of fucking losers!!!!!!!!

[3Hotdogs]

15. No. We're the losers.

Trump and the Kochs are making out just fine.

[djacq]

8. The Orange Clown is inviting another Puerto Rico.

Brace for impact!

[keithbvadu2]

9. It was a choice of caging babies and helping his private company friends or helping disaster victims

It was a choice of caging babies and helping his private company friends or helping disaster victims .

[Ilsa]

10. This is obscene.

Like everything else they do.

Our tax dollars will be needed to help us survive Cat 3-4-5 hurricanes. Imprisoning children, besides being grossly immoral, helps no one except those that take financial advantage of disasters due to diasporas.

[TomCADem]

11. TRUMP WANTS TO CUT FEMA BUDGET BEFORE THE NEXT MAJOR HURRICANE

Remember how in late 2017, Trump was pushing for cuts in FEMA to pay for his tax cuts?

https://www.newsweek.com/harvey-trump-fema-budget-disaster-preparedness-hurricane-657237

But the response to the next Harvey could face even stricter financial constraints if President Donald Trump gets his budgetary wishes for the 2018 fiscal year, which begins October 1. The president's budget blueprint calls for FEMA's budget for state and local grants to be cut by $667 million, saying that these grants are unauthorized or ineffective.

The program it explicitly calls out as lacking congressional authorization is the Pre-Disaster Mitigation Grant Program, and a second proposed change would require all preparedness grants to be matched in part by non-federal funds. All of FEMA's pre-disaster grants are meant to reduce federal spending after disasters, and according to the agency's website, there's evidence that $1 in mitigation spending saves $4 in later damages.

Trump's budget proposal also calls for the elimination of the National Flood Insurance Program run by FEMA, which provides affordable flood insurance. According to the proposal, the program costs the government $190 million; it is also $25 billion in debt, a number expected to rise rapidly after Harvey. According to The Washington Post, even with the program in place, about 80 percent of people who own homes in the area affected by the storm don't have flood insurance.

During the same press conference where Long spoke, a reporter asked about the funding cuts. The acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security evaded the question, saying that the response team's focus right now was strictly on helping Harvey survivors recover.

[OxQQme]

12. That's gonna cut into the FEMA paper towel budget

There's something ugly and wicked behind the curtain pulling the strings.
I don't believe drumpf's word spewing is the origin.
His mind is a genetically modified sponge, absorbing thoughts intentionally placed there. The script.
He's the lead puppet in the play "Idiot Rises".

Many people would need to be voluntarily involved in order to push this load-in onto the stage
and set-up the props and lights.
Barbed wire enclosed internment facility, indeed.
Make the audience angry here in the story line.

Who are the 'they' that write the script ?

Disaster Capital is right behind Florence.

Pessimism is hard to overcome some nights.

Imagine giving drumpf a mani/pedi.............

[iluvtennis]

13. Evil shitholes that's Trumpty Dumpty and his admin. Just disgusting. nt

[MissMillie]

14. totally sucks, but

$10 million is chump change on both fronts.

The exchange does indeed indicate where his priorities lie.

[BigmanPigman]

16. Every time I think I can't despise him any more than I already

do he does something else so now I have made the amount that I HATE HIM is INFINITE!

[truthisfreedom]

17. Just in time for the east coast!

[JonLP24]

18. Internment camps for kids

He told USA TODAY that after the devastation of last year's storms, including hurricanes Maria, Harvey and Irma, FEMA should have the funds it needs to be prepared for another disastrous hurricane season.

"It's almost guaranteed to happen again, so this is just incredibly irresponsible," Merkley said.

The budgeting document, titled "Department of Homeland Security FY 2018 transfer and reprogramming notifications," lists $9,755,303 taken from FEMA's budget, about .9 percent of the agency's listed overall budget, and given to support ICE.


Money was also taken from other agencies, including millions from the Transportation Security Administration and the U.S. Coast Guard, to help ICE, the document states.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/09/11/femas-budget-cut-10-million-support-ice-documents-show/1274723002/

[DonViejo]

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