Former President Donald Trump and some of his GOP allies on Capitol Hill have been falsely telling voters in key swing states that the Biden-Harris administration diverted more than $1 billion in disaster relief for Hurricane Helene survivors to feed and shelter undocumented immigrants.
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.”
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.
