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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has been promoted to the position of senior adviser to the president while continuing to serve as press secretary for the remainder of President Biden’s term. Ms. Jean-Pierre proved once again during her October 7th White House press briefing why the most accurate title for her service to the Biden-Harris administration is Chief Propaganda Officer. She resorted to the Biden-Harris administration’s customary accusation of “misinformation” when asked why the Biden administration is providing additional money to Lebanon while North Carolina residents in need are not getting enough federal disaster relief in the wake of Hurricane Helene. Ms. Jean-Pierre charged that the question asked by Fox News reporter Peter Doocy was premised on misinformation:
PETER DOOCY: President Biden is fond of saying, “Show me your budget and I will tell you what you value.” If he has money for people in Lebanon right now without Congress having to come back, what does it say about his values — there’s not enough money right now for people in North Carolina who need it. That’s not misinformation.
KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: Wait, no it is, your whole premise of the question is misinformation, sir. Yes, it is…the way you’re asking me the question is misinformation. There is money that we are allocating to the impacted areas, and there’s money there to help people who truly need it. There are survivors who need the funding — who need the funding, and it’s there.
PETER DOOCY: You can’t call a question that you don’t like “misinformation.”
The Biden-Harris administration believes that it can do so by weaponizing the words “misinformation/disinformation” to discredit and even censor any information that contradicts their party line. Vice President Kamala Harris and other senior members of the administration are beating the “misinformation” drum while spreading misinformation of their own. Contrary to their claims that the hard-hit communities in western North Carolina are getting all the federal resources they need, folks on the ground who are suffering say otherwise. North Carolina residents have been without adequate basic necessities, such as food, water, shelter, and means of communication, for too long. They have been relying primarily on volunteers and each other to deal with the destruction left behind by Hurricane Helene.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) does not have enough funding to make it through the rest of the hurricane season, according to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Moreover, as of October 6th, only nine percent of FEMA staff members were available to deal with Hurricane Milton or any other natural disaster to come, according to the agency’s daily operations briefing cited by the New York Times.
Yet despite all this, Vice President Kamala Harris proudly announced that her administration is sending nearly $157 million in additional assistance to Lebanon to meet the “essential needs” of the Lebanese people. These needs include “food, shelter, water, protection, and sanitation to help those who have been displaced by the recent conflict.” She noted that “This additional support brings total U.S. assistance to Lebanon over the last year to over $385 million.”
While lamenting the “increasingly dire humanitarian situation” in Lebanon, Vice President Harris neglected to mention that it is the Iranian terrorist proxy Hezbollah who is responsible for the manmade humanitarian disaster in Lebanon. Hezbollah launched unprovoked rocket and missile attacks against Israel a year ago in solidarity with Hamas. Israel finally decided in recent weeks that it had enough and mounted a forceful counterattack within Lebanon to eliminate Hezbollah’s leadership, command and control centers, and advanced weaponry.
Hezbollah has brought the “increasingly dire humanitarian situation” upon Lebanon, a country that the terrorist group has largely controlled with Iran’s support. Nevertheless, the Biden-Harris administration is naively sending nearly $157 million more in relief funds to Lebanon without ensuring that none of this money will end up in Hezbollah’s hands. Meanwhile, Americans are not being provided with enough federal assistance to cope with the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. So far, they have only received a paltry $750 each in immediate assistance. And many more Americans impacted by Hurricane Milton and other hurricanes to follow will not get the federal disaster relief they need to survive and rebuild.
As Florida Senator Rick Scott wrote: “If we renamed Florida and North Carolina to Lebanon and Ukraine, maybe Kamala Harris would send disaster relief faster. She’s made it clear that being Americans puts us last in line.”
The Biden-Harris administration has rendered FEMA’s disaster relief program much less effective in other ways as well. For example, FEMA has been criticized for allocating $640.9 million this year in FEMA-administered funds to state and local governments dealing with the influx of illegal immigrants.
“This is easy,” Texas Governor Greg Abbott posted on X. “Mayorkas and FEMA — immediately stop spending money on illegal immigration resettlement and redirect those funds to areas hit by the hurricane. Put Americans first.”
FEMA claims that it does not have discretion to divert the money specifically allocated by Congress for addressing the illegal immigrant crisis to natural disaster relief. But this begs the question as to why the Biden-Harris administration did not request Congress to repurpose any of that money as the hurricane season was approaching.
In addition, a Department of Homeland Security inspector general’s report revealed last August that, as of October 2022, FEMA had more than $7 billion in “unliquidated funds” that were meant to relieve declared disasters from 2012 or earlier. These funds, the inspector general’s report stated, “could potentially be returned to the Disaster Relief Fund.” When the inspector general’s report was published, what did the Biden-Harris administration do regarding this revelation, if anything? Did it try to ascertain whether these billions of dollars that are potentially returnable to the Disaster Relief Fund could be made available immediately to fund today’s disaster relief needs? If not, why not?
Adding insult to injury, Biden-Harris’s FEMA prioritizes “disaster equity” in distributing natural disaster relief aid over what achieves the greatest good for the greatest amount of people. In 2022, Vice President Harris said that the impact of hurricanes and other extreme natural disasters should be addressed “in a way that is about giving resources based on equity.”
Prior to Hurricanes Helene and Hurricane Milton, FEMA had already handed out millions of dollars in grants intended to increase “equity” in responding to disasters in what FEMA calls “underserved communities” defined by group identities.
In short, distributing relief assistance starting with the persons most in need, regardless of race, ethnic background, sexual orientation, or gender, is less important to the Biden-Harris administration than engaging in top-down, group identity-driven social engineering.
The truth is that FEMA’s performance in fulfilling its core mission of providing Americans with natural disaster relief has been a disaster on the Biden-Harris administration’s watch. Misinformation about FEMA’s actual performance to date is coming from the administration itself.
Intrepid says
I anyone surprised at the atrocious performance. I would hope this seals the deal for Trump in the affected states, especially N.C.
Intrepid says
typo and correction: Is anyone surprised………..
Rob A says
The deal is already sealed here in California. Trump is holding a rally here later this evening in Coachella, CA. The line of people going to the rally started yesterday afternoon. It’s estimated that there will easily be well over 80,000 people in attendance.
An open secret here in California that the media hides is that California has become MAGA country! Moreover, with the exception of the coastal area for San Diego to San Francisco, California is as red as it gets. That is to say, majority republican. People who are not from California and know little to nothing about the state don’t know that.
Accounting for land an population, California is the 2rd largest state. The majority of the state’s population lives along the coast where the libs are the majority. There’s been an ongoing effort over the last several decades to split California into 2 states. West California would be the coastal region where the libs dominate. The rest of California is to be called East California which is 3 times larger in land mass that West California.
Intrepid says
Hope you are right Bro.
I lived in Cali for 27 years. Got out 10 years ago before it became worse than it already was.
With all the illegals I’m not sure that it will ever change.
Jeff Bargholz says
The illegal alien hordes are voting in greater numbers than ever in CA. Not even the 2020 election had so many fraudulent and illegal votes. It’s felony central over here. In other words, Dirtbagocrat central.
Jeff Bargholz says
The Coachella rally was a good one but then, Trump never disappoints at his rallies. Coachella definitely attracted eighty thousand plus patriots. The one in Butler Pennsylvania attracted over one hundred thousand but that was because it’s the same site where he was shot in his ear by that lefty incel, Crooks, and people wanted to show strength and defiance to the Dirtbagocrat party and its rabid anti-Americanism. I’ve never been to Pennsylvania but I used to live in the Palm Springs area, which includes Coachella, and have visited the entire area countless times so I have no doubt that I’d rather attend a rally in Coachella. The Palm Springs corridor is great. As far as I know, it’s still controlled by Republicans and conservatives citizens, so the lefty carpetbaggers haven’t been able to despoil it.
But please don’t refer to lefty fascists as libs. They’re the exact opposite of progressive and tolerant. They hate human rights and civil liberty.
Trish says
KJP needs to stop lying. She told us 2 years ago from her binder that fema funds were being used for illegal aliens and it didn’t sound like a misquote. It’s called mis-use of funds and they have the audacity to call us liars. They all need to be fired.
Rob A says
If it weren’t for lying, she wouldn’t have anything to say.. The truth is not on the Biden administration’s side.
She’s doing the only thing she can do: lie, obfuscate and deflect and if that doesn’t suffice, behave like a petulant child and make a hasty retreat out the nearest exit.
Cat says
NY including NYC is filled with millions of patriots. Yes we have Wall Street elites & illegals but also neighborhoods of millions of patriots. & We also have vote fraud!
fsy says
She said in that briefing that $200M were being used for rescue from Helene. Can she show anything that was done with the money or did it go into someones’ pocket?
Jeff Bargholz says
Heels Up Harris lied, as always. Nobody needed to be rescued from hurricane Helene, so if the $200 million really existed, it went into the pockets of the special interests that this UTTERLY corrupt administration colludes with. There was property damage and up to ten people were reported to have possibly died but the prostitute was careful not to mention that, only a non existent “rescue.”
It’s like the worthless $750 promised for the victims of hurricane Milton. Most people are being denied even that paltry sum and there’s no proof that anybody has received it. Not only that but it’s a proposed loan, not a relief grant. I bet if anybody actually gets loan of pocket change, it’ll be at a high interest rate, knowing the chiseling scumbags in this illegitimate administration.
Patricia says
You’re mistaken, Jeff, about Helene in WNC. There are dead bodies everywhere. Nobody knows the real body count. The Special Ops guys (vets) the media just accused of hunting FEMA were carrying out corpses. FEMA won’t d0 it. They don’t want those bodies counted. I assume that is why they falsely accused these guys of being violent militia and used that as an excuse to “shut down their FEMA operations”. I don’t think anyone has seen FEMA actually doing anything to help anyone in NC. I haven’t read about them doing anything useful. I haven’t heard of anyone in NC getting the $750 either. Many are being told they don’t qualify.
Jeff Bargholz says
Now FEMA is stealing – “confiscating” – disaster supplies from private relief organizations. That on top of not helping victims at all, not even with the provision of body bags for over a thousand(?) corpses, trying to arrest private helicopter pilots and drone operators for providing essential aid, refusal to deploy the National Guard against the desires of its members and the administration’s refusal to use any of the trillions set aside for “infrastructure” (the moneyed interests they collude with) or even the 1.3 billion that FEMA reportedly has, it’s irrefutable that our illegitimate presidential administration and FEMA WANT those people to die, become homeless and in many cases, both. They sure don’t want them to vote. MAGA voters, dont’cha know. And most of them are white, and we all know how much the D-Bags hate whitey. The utterly unqualified political appointee who heads FEMA has proudly declared that poor blacks take precedence over ALL other races and demographics.
We’re experiencing evil from our government at a level never seen before.
Patricia says
Sorry, so cancel my previous comment. I must have misunderstood.
Spurwing Plover says
FEMA has become totally useless aiding Illegal Aliens? Future Democrat Voters & Supporters while ignoring those in North Carolina and Florida
Jeff Bargholz says
Yes, Dirtbagocrat lefties in the coastal strip from the Bay Area down to San Diego control the state, with the exception of the Orange County oasis. Inland areas have local influence but none statewide. Most of the inland areas and the coast north of the Bay Area have conservative majorities, although many or most of our State Representatives are RINOs. Some of the conservative inland Counties and voter districts change hands back and forth between Republicans and D-bags due to the relentless D-bag vote cheat machine but the public in those areas DEFINITELY don’t want any D-Bag taint.
Coastal CA as West CA and eastern CA as East CA is a great idea but our flagrantly corrupt and anti-citizen State Legislature is controlled by D-Bags, so that isn’t going to happen. I’m sick and tired of being dominated by left-wing scum, as I’m sure you are. Sure, the “woke” mob and their hordes of Mexicans and illegal aliens would control all the best beaches but anybody from a proposed East CA would be able to use them and they would control the Sierra Nevada range and all but the coastal ranges, depending on where the border line would be drawn. Most of the ranges are in the inland Empire, Mojave and surround the Central Valley, which is sixty miles wide and four hundred fifty miles long from top to bottom. The Sierras are the largest range in the state, by far, and all the beautiful mountain ranges in a Proposed East CA would be under its supervision, and NOBODY could be worse wilderness stewards than the current State Legislature and Guv Grease head Newscum. I seriously doubt the destructive nonsense dictated by the environ-mental case lobby would be obeyed.
Northern CA and Southern Oregon may have become Jefferson County but when America entered WWII, that plan was nixed. There are still road signs up there that declare Jefferson County.
Jeff Bargholz says
Whoops! “State of Jefferson,” not Jefferson County.