MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump denying emergency disaster relief to Georgia and North Carolina, two states that voted for him. Start your 90-Day, risk-free trial today at JustThriveHealth.com and use promo code: MEIDAS to save 20% on your first bottle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The retribution tour continues. Donald Trump is denying FEMA aid to North Carolina in connection with Hurricane Helene. You'll recall we previously reported how Donald Trump denied FEMA aid to Georgia. Democratic governor in North Carolina, Republican Governor Kemp in Georgia. Donald Trump doesn't like either. And Donald Trump previously said recently that he wants to gut FEMA, get rid of it.
He says he's going to replace it with the states. whatever that means, and that it's going to be much bigger and more beautiful and better, but Donald Trump not supporting people with emergency aid who lost their lives and lost their life savings or lost their shelter or lost their homes because of devastating hurricanes. You don't get much more low than that, actually, when it's Donald Trump.
There's really no depths to his depravity. North Carolina voted for Donald Trump. Georgia voted for Donald Trump. Former President Biden immediately activated FEMA when it came to the national emergencies in both of those states over and over again, no questions asked, and supported those states relentlessly, only for Donald Trump to go into those states and lie and claim that FEMA was stealing.
Remember what Trump said during the campaign? That he would make FEMA so much better that during his term, FEMA was the greatest thing ever. And he said FEMA was stealing the money from the people of North Carolina and Georgia and elsewhere and giving it to illegal aliens is what he said. And then Donald Trump convinced his supporters, and this was echoed,
on state regime media known as Fox and all the propagandists that FEMA wasn't giving money to people and that FEMA was just helping the migrants. And people believe that and then voted for Donald Trump.
Take a look right here at the letter that Donald Trump just sent to the governor of North Carolina, Governor Josh Stein, where Trump says, quote, it has been determined that the increased level of funding is not warranted. In a emergency caused by a hurricane, this is the official letter from FEMA to Governor Stein.
This is in response to your February 20th, 2025 request for an extension to the cost share waiver under major disaster FEMA-4827-DR that was declared on September 28th, 2024 due to tropical storm Helene. You specifically requested an extension of the 100% federal cost share waiver debris removal and emergency protective measures, including direct federal assistance, for an additional 180 days.
On September 25, 2024, the federal cost share for debris removal and emergency protective measures, including direct federal assistance, was increased to 100% for 180 days from the start of the incident period pursuant to
And then it goes on to say on December 6, 2024, the federal cost share for all categories of assistance, including direct federal assistance, was increased to 90% of total eligible costs, except for assistance previously approved at 100%. This cost share adjustment is for the lifetime of the disaster. Based on our review of all, by the way, that was all under former President Biden.
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