Whistleblowers state that the agency’s stuck with low morale, no resources, and a disaster response as slow as a highway during 5 o’clock traffic.
Nearly 200 dead, scores missing—and FEMA’s running out of excuses to not help those in need.
It was Matt Gaetz, Florida Representative, that wrote a letter to Alejandro Mayorkas, stating that whistleblowers had contacted his office.
He writes that hundreds, “if not thousands” of FEMA agents have been deployed to North Carolina.
And you know what they’re doing (other than confiscating donations and stopping people trying to help) ?
They’re just sitting in hotels, waiting for their marching orders.
Hope those hotels still get cable service.
I’d sure hate for those agents to get bored while people suffer all around them.
FEMA whistleblowers confirming that once again, it’s America last. pic.twitter.com/CVyEkMwbPs
— Sarah Sansoni (@sarahsansoni) October 4, 2024
BREAKING: FEMA whistleblowers have come forward alleging that the agency misappropriated funds in the wake of Helene, withheld pre-disaster aid, and that first responders and service members have been waiting in hotels without deployment orders. pic.twitter.com/uf0XrspRTz
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 4, 2024
Even Elon Musk is getting intel on what’s happening in N.C.
Just received this note from a SpaceX engineer helping on the ground in North Carolina. @FEMA is not merely failing to adequately help people in trouble, but is actively blocking citizens who try to help!
“Hey Elon, update here on site of Asheville, NC. We have powered up two…
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 4, 2024
SpaceX engineer told Musk:
“Hey Elon, update here on site of Asheville, NC. We have powered up two large operating bases for choppers to deliver goods into hands. We’ve deployed 300+ starlinks and outpour is it has saved many lives.
The big issue is FEMA is actively blocking shipments and seizing goods and services locally and locking them away to state they are their own. It’s very real and scary how much they have taken control to stop people helping. We are blocked now on the shipments of new starlinks coming in until we get an escort from the fire dept. but that may not be enough.”
Remember when FEMA did the same thing in Maui?
It’s almost like they’re waiting for the victims to die…
Daily Mail reports:
The federal government’s disaster response agency has been painfully slow to deploy first responders to help Hurricane Helene victims and making things worse of the ground, multiple whistleblowers have alleged.
The bombshell allegations of mismanagement at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) come just days after the agency took a beating for its boss Alejandro Mayorkas admitting it will not be able to foot the bill for this historic hurricane season.
A letter from a whistleblower to Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla. details how the department has wasted and misappropriated funds in the wake of Helene and is now ‘exacerbating the emergency.’
The letter also alleges ‘hundreds if not thousands’ of first responders and service members have been ‘without deployment orders’ with some waiting around in hotels while others ‘have sat idle’ as Americans throughout the southeast are in dire need.
‘This news comes after FEMA has spent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on migrants due to Border Czar Kamala Harris’ open border instead of prioritizing funding for Americans impacted by disasters,’ Gaetz wrote in a scathing letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Sec. Mayorkas on Friday.
Over the last two years, FEMA has handed out more than $1 billion taxpayer dollars to specifically support illegal migrants with housing.
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ONE BILLION DOLLARS to illegal immigrants.
$700 to a few survivors in N.C.
Outrageous!
James O’Keefe from OMG is putting a call out to FEMA employees, if any of them want to go on record about what’s happening.
Let’s get FEMA whistleblowers to record their colleagues.
ATTENTION ALL FEMA EMPLOYEES .
Now is the time to draw your line in the sand and do what is right. Expose your bosses. Come forward. My citizen journalism foundation will pay your legal bills. https://t.co/8SQJNLXhCi
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) October 4, 2024
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