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Let's see how that works when the hard-hit statements go begging from the safer states who don't have many natural disasters.
Biden had enough for (illegally) paying off student loans, give arms to Ukraine, and spent billions in the last few days on semi-conductor manufacturers (Silicon Valley supporters). But the Democrats saved money by skipping the homes of Trump supporters.Just listened to most of Gov. DeSantis' message to Florida residents about preparing for Hurricane Milton. He managed to talk for at least fifteen minutes, thanking Publix, WalMart and other companies, saying that they had received $63 million in donations after Helene, and not mentioning the federal government at all.
As he continues to perpetuate this fantasy, let's remember that he refused to accept a call from VP Harris the day before.
For the truth about what the U.S. is doing in disaster relief for Hurricanes Helene and Milton, visit
It's disgraceful that Republicans are spreading disinformation and frightening residents who fear help won't be there when they need it.
The fact that DeSantis is not extending the deadline for registering to vote shows where his priorities are. Ugh.
We have many close relative in Florida, and my husband's whole family is in the Tampa to Clearwater area. We are praying for the people, as I'm sure you are.
It upsets me to see these disasters exploited for political purposes.
The only loans forgiven were through programs created by Congress.
money appropriated for that purpose by Congress
Also money appropriated by Congress
I know that has been claimed, but from my understanding there is no proof of it.
It's always really interesting when somebody prefaces something by saying "the fact is" because what follows is often not a fact.
Using money appropriated for that purpose by Congress
That is not what Mayorkas said. He said that they will run out of money before the end of hurricane season if Congress didn't give them more money. It's also worth pointing out that the money for housing for undocumented immigrants is in a different fund than for disaster relief. They could have spent literally no money on supporting DHS with housing immigrants and still not have enough money for disaster relief.
The states would be worse off if it was simply a block grant. In the current situation, the aid is targeted to places that have the most need, which wouldn't be the case if it were spread out to the whole country.
I appreciate your effort Arc - but from what I remember ALL of these points have been covered in the post before with evidence and links demonstrating them sufficiently.
Sorry - I wasn't criticising you for not knowing the whole history of the thread - but just pointing out that some people will not change their minds no matter how much credible information is shared with them.
The Department of Education issued those loans. Biden told the people who had outstanding debt that they didn't have to pay those loans back. The Supreme Court stated that Biden didn't have that authority. He ignored them and went ahead and erased those loans-funds that we, as taxpayers, will now have to pay to the bank.
Actually not true. If you believe this you need to read Biden v. Missouri again. What that case decided was that Biden did not have the authority to forgive student loans using the HEROES Act. In other words, this specific tool was not one that could be used that way.
He didn't ignore them though. He listened to them, dropped his attempt to forgive loans through the HEROES Act, and looked for and found some other way to reach his goal. He ended up using more targeted forgiveness using some provisions of the Higher Education Act instead of his earlier blanket approach. It's as if the goal to forgive loans was a room and BIden tried to go through one door and was told he couldn't so he just looked until he found a different door he could use.
I'm not denying that.
I'm not saying Biden didn't implement some student loan forgiveness, I'm just rebutting the implication this was some sort of rouge act instead of Biden using his authority as President as specifically granted by Congress. In other words, if Congress didn't want him to be able to fulfill his promise of meeting this goal, they should have amended the HEA.
