MTG: Biden Administration ‘Despicable’ for Funding Foreign Wars Yet Little Help for U.S. Storm Victims

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) described the Biden administration’s decision to send an additional $500 million to Ukraine as “despicable” while residents of western North Carolina are losing their transitional sheltering assistance (TSA).

Taylor, in a post on X, condemned the federal government’s willingness to send “a seemingly infinite supply of tax dollars” across the world to fund “forever wars” while Americans in need are treated as a low priority.

The federal government has a seemingly infinite supply of tax dollars ready to ship to fund forever wars all across the world.

But when it comes to helping Americans genuinely in need, the money runs dry.

The treatment Western North Carolina has received by its own government… https://t.co/yxAjOa8393

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) January 9, 2025

WPDE TV reports that on Jan 10, 3,500 households in storm-ravaged western North Carolina may lose their temporary housing assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) unless an individual extension is granted.

FEMA officials say that nearly 13,000 households were originally eligible for the shelter assistance which provides hotel rooms for them until their homes are repaired, inspected and deemed to be inhabitable.

But with a major winter storm bearing down on the region, FEMA is reporting that nearly 3,500 households will no longer meet eligibility for the assistance due to an inspection showing their homes to be habitable, declining an inspection or FEMA officials being unable to contact the applicant despite multiple attempts.

Storm victims who had been housed in hotel rooms under TSA, were notified starting on Jan 3 that they may no longer be eligible for the program.

Residents were urged to stay in touch with FEMA officials and to provide regular updates on their housing status and contact information in order to maintain eligibility.

The apparent disparity between the Biden administration’s limitless generosity toward Ukraine and its more tight-fisted approach to providing help for American citizens in harm’s way is sparking outrage in western North Carolina as well as in Washington D.C.

Rep. Greene stated her disgust at the outgoing administration’s increasingly shameless taxpayer-financed favors to its friends, saying, “I can’t wait for President Trump to take office and begin putting Americans first!”