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Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard accused President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris of enacting “American people come last policies” in funding illegal immigrants while citizens are suffering as a result of Hurricane Helene.
Gabbard referred to FEMA’s allocation of $640 million this year toward its Shelter and Services Program that has helped migrants find food and housing, which is separate from his disaster preparedness funding. The agency has some $20 million in disaster funding, but according to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, it does not have the funds to last through hurricane season, which is slated to end Nov. 30.
“There’s such a huge laundry list of the needs that they have. You look at power. So many of these communities are still without power. There are many small towns with hundreds or maybe a thousand people who live in these towns — as you’re seeing here in these images — They have yet to be able to get the power they need to be able to get access to water and water pumps and wells,” Gabbard said. “This is just another example, unfortunately, of Vice President Harris and President Joe Biden’s ‘the American people come last’ policies, and we’re feeling it firsthand.”
Over 200 people are dead, and more than 2,000 are reported missing since Hurricane Helene touched ground in Florida and spread to Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky. Hurricane Milton is following on its heels.
“We can’t say that this [is] incompetence because incompetence implies that you do care and you’ve made your best effort, but you have failed. [The Biden Administration] made very clear their priorities all along and, unfortunately, it’s the American people and our fellow Americans who are in the most dire need in this moment of disaster who are feeling the consequences of that,” Gabbard said. “They’ve created these open borders, they’ve provided our taxpayer dollars.”
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Congress funded the Shelter and Services Program after voting it into effect last year, some two years after Gabbard retired from the House. Meanwhile, Congress did not opt to add $10 billion towards natural disasters in last month’s continuing resolution to fund the government.
FEMA reported there were twice as many disasters in 2023 than in 2016.
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