All Americans should be 'outraged' over Mayorkas' comments on lack of FEMA funds, says Florida AG Moody

The useless "wall" (breached over 3,000 times according to the Border Patrol) cost more than that alone. C'mon.

On the same day in May 2019, the Army Corps of Engineers awarded a pair of contracts worth $788 million to replace 83 miles of fence along the southwest border.

The projects were slated to be completed in January 2020, the Corps said then. Four months into this year, however, the government increased the value of the contracts by more than $1 billion, without the benefit of competitive bidding designed to keep costs low to taxpayers.

Within a year of the initial award, the value of the two contracts had more than tripled, to over $3 billion, even though the length of the fence the companies were building had only grown by 62%, to 135 miles. The money is coming from military counter-narcotics funding.

Records show Trump’s border wall is costing taxpayers billions more than initial contracts ​

As the presidential election nears, a review of federal spending data found modifications to contracts have increased the price of the border wall by billions, costing about five times more per mile than it did under previous administrations.
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Oh, but don't worry, Trump says that Mexico is going to pay for it. You can trust him on that. (WFTH-I)

Vambram said:

After that article was written in 2020, millions upon millions of illegal immigrants have been allowed by the Democratic Party, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and DHS Secretary Mayorkas into the USA.

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Feel free to show that Biden spent more than the $3 billion Trump wasted on the useless "wall" alone. What do you have?

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The Small Business Administration, which provides low-interest loans to millions of disaster survivors, is set to run out of funding for hurricane victims within days, SBA Administrator Isabel Casillas Guzman told Congress late Thursday, as officials tally the extent of Hurricane Milton’s damage on the heels of Helene.

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SBA fund is out of money after Hurricanes Helene and Milton, Biden says​

The agency, which assists renters, homeowners and businesses, will halt issuing new loans until Congress approves new funding.

“The Small Business Administration’s disaster loan program, which is a critical lifeline to small businesses, homeowners, and renters affected by disasters, has been exhausted,” Biden said in a statement. “Speaker Johnson has promised that this and other disaster programs will be replenished when Congress returns, so Americans should continue to apply for these loans. SBA will continue to process applications and will disburse loans as soon as Congress provides the needed funding.”

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SBA fund is out of money after Hurricanes Helene and Milton, Biden says​

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Senate Republicans raise questions after funds for disaster loans exhausted​

The senators accused the SBA of failing to comply, or partially complying, with reporting requirements that exist under law to ensure Congress is provided with “sufficient notification and information before any shortfall occurs in its disaster account.”

A spokesperson for the agency said in a statement to The Hill that the agency “first raised the need for additional funds to congressional appropriators in September 2023.”

Since then, the representative said, the agency “has provided several bipartisan briefings and made many proactive requests to ensure the disaster loan program remains funded at a sufficient level.”

“While SBA’s requests were unfortunately not fulfilled, the agency continues to stand ready to work with Congress so that the tens of thousands of small business owners, homeowners, and renters devastated by Hurricanes Helene and Milton can get the funding needed to rebuild their homes and lives,” the spokesperson added.

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Senate Republicans raise questions after funds for disaster loans exhausted​

The senators accused the SBA of failing to comply, or partially complying, with reporting requirements that exist under law to ensure Congress is provided with “sufficient notification and information before any shortfall occurs in its disaster account.”

A spokesperson for the agency said in a statement to The Hill that the agency “first raised the need for additional funds to congressional appropriators in September 2023.”

Since then, the representative said, the agency “has provided several bipartisan briefings and made many proactive requests to ensure the disaster loan program remains funded at a sufficient level.”

“While SBA’s requests were unfortunately not fulfilled, the agency continues to stand ready to work with Congress so that the tens of thousands of small business owners, homeowners, and renters devastated by Hurricanes Helene and Milton can get the funding needed to rebuild their homes and lives,” the spokesperson added.

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This might require the legislature investigate why these documented, historic events happened and they did nothing about it?

Go far enough up the political food-chain and heads don’t roll.

Vambram said:

Also, please stop posting the falsehoods about President Trump turning his back on Americans caught in disasters.

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In early September 2020, wildfires tore through eastern Washington state, obliterating tens of millions of dollars of property, displacing hundreds of rural residents and killing a 1-year-old boy.

But then-President Donald Trump refused to act on Gov. Jay Inslee’s request for $37 million in federal disaster aid because of a bitter personal dispute with the Democratic governor, an investigation by POLITICO’s E&E News shows.

Trump sat on Inslee’s request for the final four months of his presidency, delaying recovery and leaving communities unsure about rebuilding because nobody knew if they would get federal help.

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a Republican representing the wildfire-damaged area in Washington state, asked Trump at least twice to approve disaster aid and wrote him a desperate letter on Dec. 31, 2020, obtained by E&E News.

“People in my district need support, and I implore you to move forward in providing it to those who have been impacted by devastating wildfires,” Rodgers wrote. Her district was the only one in Washington to support Trump in the 2020 election.

Five months after Trump left office, Rodgers introduced a bill to require presidents to act on governors’ requests for disaster aid within 30 days.

President Joe Biden ultimately approved Inslee’s request two weeks after taking office — 141 days after Inslee had made it — and has given Washington $45 million.