Tax Payer Funds Trump Lifestyle

[gotsnowgotslush]

American Tax Payer Funds Trump Lifestyle


Puerto Rico paid taxes.


Trump erased reality with a lie.

"I think we did a fantastic job," Trump said.

A few problems with that.

Trump response was a shitshow.

3,000 American people are dead from Hurricaine Maria


After 11 months, not everyone had electricity restored


President Donald Trump has been criticised for hailing the US response to the deadly Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico last year as "tremendous"

12 September 2018

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45492197

1,833 American people died after Hurricaine Katrina


The truth came out, about G.W. Bush's Katrina

Katrina made landfall in August 2005

28 August 2017 Hurricane Harvey


Donald Trump scrapped Barack Obama's flood protection standards days before Hurricane Harvey

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...-hurricane-harvey-houston-texas-a7916476.html


Hurricane Harvey Is Officially the Largest Rain Event in US History

7/10/18

https://earther.gizmodo.com/hurricane-harvey-is-officially-the-largest-rain-event-i-1827459856




Chris Murphy
@ChrisMurphyCT

US Senate candidate, CT
I mean this seriously, not as a political dig.

If you’re in Florence’s path and considering riding it out, your President just said that a hurricane response where 3,000 die is his measure of success.

Get out of there.


ABC News
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@ABC
During briefing on approach of Hurricane #Florence, Pres. Trump calls government's response to Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria "tremendous."

"I think that Puerto Rico was an incredible, unsung success." https://abcn.ws/2CSeONI


https://splinternews.com/trump-calls-government-response-following-hurricane-mar-1828977684


Hurricaine Florence

While the National Hurricane Center is currently forecasting a wide area of 15-20 inches of precipitations, higher localized totals are likely



Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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5h
We got A Pluses for our recent hurricane work in Texas and Florida (and did an unappreciated great job in Puerto Rico, even though an inaccessible island with very poor electricity and a totally incompetent Mayor of San Juan). We are ready for the big one that is coming

6:51 AM · Sep 12, 2018


"Trump’s own words illuminate the undeveloped space between his ears. When political strategists and pundits try to distill a Trump doctrine from his word salad, I often find myself laughing at their folly."

"Trump’s own words show he is utterly unprepared for the job of city council member, yet he possesses the nuclear launch codes. Ignorance is not bliss, but death and disaster waiting for the right mix of circumstances."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/08/donald-trumps-ignorance-evident-by-the-day

 

[KeithD]

Before the election Trump said he could turn a profit from being president, and he's doing that. Those who voted for him--deplorables and the Russians--knew that before they voted for him.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Are the Republican Extremist Right Wing gremlins dancing with joy, as the historic hurricaine threatens ?


https://www.charlotteobserver.com

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article218259690.html



What happened to the relief supplies sent to Puerto Rico ?



David Begnaud
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@DavidBegnaud
BREAKING: What may be millions of water bottles. meant for victims of Hurricane Maria, have been sitting on a runway in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, since last year, according to @FEMA, which confirmed the news to me, late tonight, after pictures, posted today on social media, went viral

gsgs comment-
What happened to relief funds and funds for addressing the aftermath of destruction and disorder ? Trump did a half-assed job of funding I.C.E. The idea behind the War on Refugee Immigration is half-baked. Crude, vulgar, cruel, and dishonest, just like Trump, himself. The system in place, is operating on a shoestring. The shoestring is deteriorating./end gsgs comment

Is Trump using hurricane relief money to fund ICE?

Not exactly.

September 12, 2018

Trump administration is taking $200 million from other parts of the Department of Homeland Security instead of staying within its budget on immigrant detention.

ICE outspends its budget to keep tens of thousands of immigrants in detention, then asks Congress, or other agencies to make up for it


One of the things funded by FEMA “operations and support” is the agency’s Office of Response and Recovery, which organizes the agency’s emergency operations and rebuilding efforts. About $2.5 million of the transferred funds came out of the response and recovery budgets.


The real story in the documents released by Merkley isn’t where the money is coming from, it’s where it’s going to.

Almost all the funds were transferred to ICE. Over half went to “transportation and removal” — the flights that physically deport migrants from the US. The remainder went to funding immigration detention.

DHS needed the extra $200 million to maintain its deportation pace, and to keep holding over 40,000 immigrants a night in detention facilities.


Congress funded ICE to detain about 38,000 immigrants at any given time — and they’ve been detaining more than 40,000, thus burning through their money faster than budgeted.


https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/9/12/17850594/hurricane-fema-ice-trump-immigration



https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/12/us/politics/fema-ice-immigration-detention.html

Merkley, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, acquired the previously undisclosed document, which shows $9.8 million was diverted from FEMA to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to pay for more “detention beds” and “ICE’s transportation and removal program.

https://thinkprogress.org/donald-tr...enter-immigration-rachel-maddow-c1f554bb7b1e/


gsgs comment-
It is a medical epidemic waiting to happen. Border Patrol arrests and detains the undocumented immigrants, and has them for the shortest amount of time. They are the worst place, because their funding is diverted to I.C.E. Trump is snipping a million dollars from each department connected with I.C.E.

CNN
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@CNN
Democratic senator Jeff Merkley releases document showing a transfer of nearly $10 million from FEMA to ICE, and accuses President Trump's administration of diverting funds from hurricane relief at the start of hurricane season

5:56 AM - Sep 12, 2018


Trump administration diverted nearly $10 million from FEMA to ICE detention program, according to DHS document


September 12 at 4:58 AM 2018


The reallocation of public money is documented in a “Transfer and Reprogramming” notification prepared this fiscal year by the Department of Homeland Security, the parent department of ICE, as the agency is known.


It was made public- by Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon in an appearance Tuesday on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” as Hurricane Florence barreled toward the Carolinas.


(Merkley’s office provided the 39-page budget document independently to The Washington Post.)


It shows that DHS requested that about $9.8 million going toward FEMA efforts such as “Preparedness and Protection” and “Response and Recovery” be funneled instead into ICE coffers, specifically underwriting “Detention Beds” and the agency’s “Transportation and Removal Program.” The U.S. Secret Service was also a beneficiary of the reallocation.

The document’s file information indicates that it was created in late June, the first month of the Atlantic hurricane season.


Washington Post


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...program/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d952d7ce54ce

Trump The Liar-

"I actually think it was one of the best jobs that's ever been done with respect to what this is all about," Trump said Tuesday of the response in Puerto Rico

FEMA is overextended, overworked, and inadequately staffed, and the staff does not have adequate or appropriate training.

The report also said that FEMA lacked enough Spanish-speaking employees, and that some staffers were not physically fit enough to handle the “extreme or austere” environment.

Currie (Christopher Currie, the GAO's director of emergency management issues) added that FEMA was already 30 percent understaffed after Hurricane Harvey, and that some personnel were already drained by the storms and fires that hit prior to Maria.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...749e14-b06a-11e8-8b53-50116768e499_story.html

Trump said 6 people died in Puerto Rico because of Hurricaine Maria. 60 deaths were acknowledged, in the beginning. Over 3,000 is the current count of people that died because of the lack of assistance and resources.


A FEMA letter to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) that was made public on Tuesday revealed that the agency approved just 75 of nearly 2,500 requests for funeral assistance made by Puerto Ricans.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trumps-hurricane-response-722914/

September 4, 2018

The federal government’s response to Hurricane Harvey and other major disasters the fall of 2017 were hampered by staff shortages and a lack of employees trained for disaster response, according to a report the U.S. Government Accountability Office published Tuesday

Christopher Currie, the GAO's director of emergency management issues, said in a phone interview that FEMA was already stretched thin by responding to hurricanes Harvey and Irma, as well.as California wildfires

https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/09/04/world/americas/ap-cb-puerto-rico-hurricane-maria.html



September 12, 2018

A federal judge in Massachusetts on August 30 allowed the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to stop funding its Transitional Shelter Assistance (TSA) program, which allows hurricane-displaced people to live in hotels or motels throughout Puerto Rico and the U.S. mainland


FEMA told ThinkProgress 1,002 (Puerto Rico)households are currently checked into hotels through the program, and they will be losing their federal support at check-out on Friday

The federal judge who authorized FEMA to end the program, urged the agency to work with the people enrolled in the program to find alternative housing so they are not left homeless. However, according to the civil rights advocacy group LatinoJustice PRLDEF, which represents the hurricane survivors enrolled in the program in court, the federal agency has not done that.


Bannan said despite the court order, FEMA has not been informing survivors enrolled in the TSA program about their options and the available programs.

“The burden has been on the people who have been traumatized or re-traumatized a week before the anniversary” of Hurricane Maria,” Bannan said. “There has been no proactive stance by FEMA to make sure people are not left homeless.”

https://thinkprogress.org/fema-will...-out-on-the-streets-this-friday-45acad1ef0b1/


The deaths were not documented ?

Same problem with Trump's immigration prisons for children and babies. Trump did not hire people to coordinate documentation of the location of each person they grabbed. No paper trail. Though, the child wranglers were free to re-locate the children 1,000 miles away, and move the siblings 1,000 miles away from the original arrest location.

They are grabbed in Arizona. The mother is sent to Seattle. The father is moved to Texas. The child is moved as far away as New York, The teen son is sent to a privately owned prison for teens in the South. Airlines were exposed as complicit in flying the children


https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/21/us/cities-taking-separated-migrant-children/index.html

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trumps-hurricane-response-722914/

American Airlines said it has “no knowledge that the federal government has used American to transport children who have been separated from their parents due to the recent immigration policy, but we would be extremely disappointed to learn that is the case.”

American said it has asked the federal government “to immediately refrain” from using American for such flights.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/20/american-airlines-migrant-children-656231


Arizona to Florida

One airline official told CNN that they have limited insight on the exact circumstances of the people for whom the government buys tickets. The airlines don't know whether the individual is being deported, is a child separated from its family and headed to a detention center, or if it's an unaccompanied minor being reunited with family.


https://money.cnn.com/2018/06/20/ne...es-children-detention-border-trump/index.html

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

The document, titled "Department of Homeland Security FY 2018 Transfer and Reprogramming Notifications" was first reported by Rachel Maddow on MSNBC and obtained by Sen. Jeff Merkley, a Democratic member of the Senate Appropriations Committee.

It shows that Department of Homeland Security (DHS) which oversees both the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), transferred $9.8 million from FEMA to ICE.


The documents show that the transferred amounts include $332,999 from disaster recovery, $1.9 million from disaster response, and $2.1 million from preparedness and protection funds.

Funds were also transferred to ICE from other agencies including the Transportation Security Administration and the US Coast Guard, the document says.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/articl...dministration-transferred-millions-of-dollars

 

[KeithD]

The document, titled "Department of Homeland Security FY 2018 Transfer and Reprogramming Notifications" was first reported by Rachel Maddow on MSNBC and obtained by Sen. Jeff Merkley, a Democratic member of the Senate Appropriations Committee.

It shows that Department of Homeland Security (DHS) which oversees both the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), transferred $9.8 million from FEMA to ICE.


The documents show that the transferred amounts include $332,999 from disaster recovery, $1.9 million from disaster response, and $2.1 million from preparedness and protection funds.

Funds were also transferred to ICE from other agencies including the Transportation Security Administration and the US Coast Guard, the says.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/articl...dministration-transferred-millions-of-dollars

Tonight's Rachel Maddow show (Wednesday, 12 September) supplements this report on FEMA with another report that $27 million from the Coast Guard (also a hurricane responder) budget was transferred to ICE at the beginning of hurricane season as well--to help with the Trump regime's kidnap program.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

You may have heard that they shifted $10 million from FEMA to ICE, but that’s only the tip of the iceberg, according to CNN. Tal Kopan reported that “the Trump administration this summer quietly redirected $200 million from all over the Department of Homeland Security to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, despite repeated congressional warnings of ICE’s ‘lack of fiscal discipline’ and ‘unsustainable’ spending.”


https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/12/politics/ice-more-money-fema-dhs/


Of the $200 million, the document says $93 million will go to immigrant detention, a 3% budget increase that will fund capacity for an additional 2,300 detainees; and $107 million for "transportation and removal," or deportations, a 29% budget increase.


On Tuesday, the administration announced it would tripling the size of an emergency temporary tent facility to house more immigrant children.


The additional $200 million would put ICE's budget for detention and transportation at more than $3.6 billion.


The money came from different parts of DHS, including FEMA, the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office, Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers, Coast Guard, Transportation Security Administration, cybersecurity office and Customs and Border Protection.


Congressional records indicate that ICE reprogrammed $83 million combined in fiscal years 2014 and 2015, and another $127 million in fiscal year 2016. Those requests are not generally not made public.


https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/12/politics/ice-more-money-fema-dhs/

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Trump wants a Presidential Space Force hat, to add to his hat business. Trump has a cheap copy of every official military gift given to him, and he sells them. He has covered his private property with official government images, and wears them, too.

Scofflaw.

Spite House Gift Shop



NBCWashington

@nbcwashington

Creating a Space Force as a separate military service, as proposed by President Donald Trump, would cost an estimated $12.9 billion in its first five years


6:40 PM · Sep 18, 2018

Fort Trump?

Polish leader dangles offer to US president-elect


Poland’s leader pressed President Donald Trump on Tuesday to consider creating a permanent American military base in Poland, offering a tempting incentive: The installation would be called “Fort Trump.”

Poland wants to increase the volume of liquefied gas contracts with the U.S. as a way to cut its dependence on gas imports from Russia.


https://www.boston.com/news/politic...ly-considering-boosting-us-military-in-poland

That is funny. Some things are more valuable, than mere rubles from energy sales-(Turnip Head Trump) just gave Russia a sneak peek.

Earlier Tuesday, THRump used his presidential power to order the Office of the
Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Justice, which includes the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to "provide for the immediate declassification of the following materials: (1) pages 10-12 and 17-34 of the June 2017 application to the FISA court in the matter of Carter W. Page; (2) all FBI reports of interviews with Bruce G. Ohr prepared in connection with the Russia investigation; and (3) all FBI reports of interviews prepared in connection with all Carter Page FISA applications.

(Turnip Head Trump) also ordered "the Department of Justice (including the FBI) to publicly release all text messages relating to the Russia investigation, without redaction, of James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, and Bruce Ohr.

https://www.salon.com/2018/09/18/tr...ng-his-supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaugh/

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

September 19, 2018


Earlier this week, President Donald Trump made the controversial decision to declassify text messages and documents related to the Russia investigation — a move that some experts worry could jeopardize sources and reveal secret methods used by the intelligence community.

"This is a line that Trump crossed," homeland security expert Juliette Kayyem told Boston Public Radio Wednesday.


Basically the subject of the investigation is demanding that the evidence, potentially against him, be declassified," Kayyem continued. "That's not acceptable from the Department of Justice's viewpoint."


The declassified materials include portions of a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant for former Trump aide Carter Page, as well as other documents that are part of the ongoing investigation into connections between the president's 2016 election campaign and the Russian government.

https://www.wgbh.org/news/national-...-declassifying-russia-investigation-documents

 

[Rightguide]

Taxpayers fund every President's lifestyle, but not every President forks for a Dollar a year. Keep that in mind as you accuse the President.

 

[KeithD]

Taxpayers fund every President's lifestyle, but not every President forks for a Dollar a year. Keep that in mind as you accuse the President.

There's only one president who hasn't divested himself of his businesses to hold the job and who loves taking trips to his own properties and charging the government through the nose to house and feed the entourage that has to accompany him. You're only showing how stupid you are, Rightguard.

Before he was elected, Trump said he could turn a personal profit in the job of president, and he's doing just that.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

NBC News
@NBCNews

President Trump's new Cadillac limo cost $1,500,000, weighs 20,000 lbs, and comes equipped with a fridge full of the president's own blood type


Trump's new limo cost $1.5M and comes with a fridge of his blood type
nbcnews.com

4:31 AM · Sep 26, 2018

The new Cadillac limo, built by General Motors, marks the first upgrade to the presidential state car since 2009. General Motors won a contract of $15.8 million in 2014 to build the limos. Fox News reports two limos were spotted on Sunday and that they are the first of a dozen vehicles expected to be built by General Motors.


http://time.com/5405202/trump-beast-limo-state-car-cadillac/



U.S. Secret Service
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@SecretService
The Secret Service is ready to roll into #UNGA 2018!

3:23 PM - Sep 24, 2018

 

[wizzard426]

It's ok, commies.....just write a check and be proud to pay more taxes!

 

[Kirkrapine]

[shrug] The taxpayers fund every president's lifestyle, including a mansion with servants.