Analysis: Digging into FEMA spending claims on the campaign trail

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : In lieu of EFSP-H funding, Senate and House negotiators agreed to transfer $800 million from Customs and Border Protection appropriations to FEMA "to support CBP in effectively managing noncitizen processing and preventing the overcrowding of short-term CBP holding facilities," the report accompanying the fiscal 2023 omnibus said.
45% : Trump had requested a $4.5 billion emergency supplemental package to deal with the "humanitarian and security crisis at the southern border."
45% : Trump signed it after a 305-102 House vote.
43% : "But a history of the program shows policymakers on both sides of the aisle, including Trump, have cut spending deals that included a small slice of Federal Emergency Management Agency appropriations specifically to help states and localities care for migrants released into their communities, totaling just over $1.7 billion.
32% : So, during the period starting when Trump signed the first allotment for EFSP-H into law, Congress has appropriated about 140 times that amount for FEMA disaster relief.
2% : Here's Trump on his Truth Social platform Monday: "The GREAT people of North Carolina are being stood up by (Vice President Kamala) Harris and (President Joe) Biden, who are giving almost all of the FEMA money to Illegal Migrants in what is now considered to be the WORST rescue operation in the history of the U.S.

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