Alert – Biden-Harris administration blasted for running out of money to deal with Hurricane Helene after blowing billions on migrants

The disaster response agency FEMA is out of money to help Americans in distress after Hurricane Helene despite blowing billions on illegal migrants.

Over the last two years, FEMA has been given over one billion taxpayer dollars to specifically support illegal migrants with housing.

But now money is coming up short for American citizens in need after over 150,000 households impacted by Hurricane Helene have reached out to the federal government for assistance.  

‘FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season,’ Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas shockingly admitted Wednesday.

Congress just last week passed a funding bill with $20 billion dollars additionally allocated to the agency specifically for the anticipated hurricane season.

But it won’t be enough to sustain the need after Hurricane Helene ripped through Appalachia and the south killing nearly 200 Americans – with additional storms on the horizon. 

And that is triggering lawmakers who are baffled after the taxpayer-funded agency pumped billions into nonprofits supporting illegal migrants. 

A member of law enforcement surveys flood damage in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on October 2, 2024 in Chimney Rock, North Carolina. The death toll has topped 180 people across the southeastern U.S. due to the storm, according to published reports, which made landfall as a category 4 storm last Thursday. Mayorkas says FEMA is running out of money to help

FEMA was given $640 million to support migrants in fiscal year 2024.

And outrage is growing as the agency has so far refused to re-allocated those funds toward disaster relief for Americans. 

‘Mayorkas and FEMA — immediately stop spending money on illegal immigration resettlement and redirect those funds to areas hit by the hurricane,’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott posted on X. ‘Put Americans first.’

‘WTF!’ Donald Trump Jr. wrote on X in response to a report about FEMA’s drying up coffers. 

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody also ripped the federal department for prioritizing migrants ahead of Americans. 

‘They have taken the FEMA emergency food and shelter program and over time siphoned off hundreds of millions of dollars into basically making it an illegal immigrant resettlement program,’ she said Thursday. 

Mayorkas was impeached by the House of Representatives earlier this year for his handling of the U.S.-Mexico, where lawmakers say over 10 million migrants have been encountered by authorities under his tenure, a record number.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was impeached by Republicans in the House of Representatives earlier this year but the Senate did not take up the case

Migrants wait to be processed by U.S. Border Patrol agents after crossing into the U.S. from Mexico on June 14, 2024 in Jacumba Hot Springs, California. FEMA has received over $1 billion to shelter non-citizens since 2023 

Lawmakers estimate that over 10 million migrants have been encountered crossing into the U.S. over the last several years under Joe Biden

Many Republicans, and a select few Democrats, have openly criticized his leadership of DHS and have said he is more focused on facilitating migrants entering the U.S. than enforcing laws to restrict the flow of illegal immigration. 

This is evident in the 2023 creation of FEMA's non-citizen-only Shelter and Service Program (SSP).

'The Shelter and Services Program (SSP) provides funds to state, local, tribal, and nonprofit organizations to support sheltering and other eligible activities, including facility improvements, to support noncitizen migrants who have been encountered and released by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS),' according to the DHS website. 

The program to provide shelters for non-citizens has received over $1 billion in funding since its inception two years ago. 

Its budget nearly doubled from $363.8 million in 2023 to $650 million 2024. 

There has been no indication that this money earmarked for migrants will help Americans in dire straights as a result of Hurricane Helene. 

'We are meeting the immediate needs with the money that we have,' Mayorkas said Wednesday. 'We are expecting another hurricane hitting.'

Migrants are processed by U.S. Border Patrol agents after crossing into U.S. from Mexico through an abandoned railroad

Flood damage is seen in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on October 2, 2024 in Chimney Rock, North Carolina

Destoryed houses in the mountains of North Carolina

FEMA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.  

'Mayorkas says FEMA doesn't have enough money to make it through hurricane season, but apparently it had enough to spend $1B resettling illegal aliens into the U.S. over the past few years,' Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., wrote in a statement Thursday. 

'That's the Biden/Harris admin summed up in a nutshell. They put Americans last, always.'