Trump's False Claim of Stolen Disaster Relief Funds

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : FEMA administers the grants in coordination with CBP.
59% : Furthermore, "Congress passed the first funding measure for EFSP assistance specifically for migrant support ... in 2019," when Trump was president, the CRS said in a 2023 report.
38% : For instance, in an Oct. 4 town hall in North Carolina, one of the hardest hit states, Trump said that the federal government cannot help residents there because "we're missing a billion dollars they gave ... to the migrants that came in and now we don't have the money."To be clear, federal law prohibits noncitizens from legally voting in federal elections, and there's no evidence any disaster relief money is "missing.
36% : "[T]here's nobody that's handled a hurricane or storm worse than what they are doing right now," Trump said.
27% : "Separate Funding AccountsTrump began making the false funding claims after Alejandro Mayorkas, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, warned that FEMA, a DHS agency, may not have enough money to last for the remainder of the hurricane season, which started June 1 and goes until Nov. 30.
24% : After Mayorkas made his remarks, Trump and other critics began to focus on federal funding for the department's Shelter and Services Program, claiming that money for the grant program was taken from the budget for responding to natural disasters.
19% : "However, that same day, Trump said otherwise at a Michigan rally while talking about how President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have responded to the devastation that Hurricane Helene caused in several southeastern states.
1% : So, Trump is falsely accusing the Biden-Harris administration of something that DHS did under Trump.

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