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Sorry, hurricane victims: Harris-Biden already spent your relief funds on migrants

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Published Oct. 3, 2024, 7:51 p.m. ET
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks after she surveyed the damage from Hurricane Helene, in the Meadowbrook neighborhood of Augusta, Georgia, on October 2, 2024.
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks after she surveyed the damage from Hurricane Helene, in the Meadowbrook neighborhood of Augusta, Georgia, on October 2, 2024. AFP via Getty Images

The next Americans to get slammed by the Har🦂ris-Biden bordeܫr disaster: hurricane victims!

Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas, who also oversees the Federal Emergency Management Agency, announced Wednesday that “FEMA does not have the funds to make it” 𒐪through💛 the rest of hurricane season — because it’s already emptied its emergency kitty on illegal-migrant expenses.

It’s now sending Helene victims $750 checks to finish off of a fund of just $10 mℱillion to♚ help hurricane survivors buy groceries.

President Biden’s answer: Have Congress give FEMA a fresh cash i💝nfusi꧅on.

ღMeanwhile, FEMA’s devoted $641 million this year 𓄧just to help state and local governments handle the influx.

(Of course, Mayor Adams will point out that this federal help is far short of what localities need to cover their migrant costs. But Biden’s not asking for an appropriation to pay for that, because then he’d have to admit the cost of his open-border policies: Far better to just deplete FEMA’s funds, then t🃏ell Adams and other mayors to just suck it up, or else).

To be fair, it’s not just Mayorkas who didn’t prep properly for this year’s hurricanes: Kamala Harris reportedly skipped the annual pre-storm-season briefing, indeed has opted out every year she’s been veep.

Meanwhile, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has his own Helene gripe with the Biden-Harris t💞eam: He says he wa💦s “outraged” when FEMA initially designated just 11 counties as post-hurricane disaster areas, which allows victims to file for federal assistance, when he saw “such devastation in up to 90 counties.”

He rang up the White House and got another 30 count🃏ies listed, with a chance for more to qualify.

(Hmm: If Georgia weren’t a ཧswing state, 🌃would the response have been as helpful?)

Also drawing critical fire is Pete Buttigieg’s Transportation Department, which on Tuesday ordered the grounding of all private drones in the North Carolina flood zone — even though drones have been delivering insu♏lin, baby formula and other crucial supplies to isolated flood victims.

Apparently, people are supposed to wait for official help: Tell that screaming infant to be patient.

But don’t expect any of this to rise to the PR disaster that Hurricane Katrina proved for the George W. Bush administration: Too much of the media 🐻is running interference for Harris ahe😼ad of Election Day.

Even if another hurricane hits hard and Mayorkas has to explain there’s no money left to help, we’re sure Harris & Co. will find some waᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚy to insist it’s Donald Trump’s fault.