https://www.cbs17.com/news/north-carolina-news/fema-denies-nc-appeal-for-helene-recovery-match/
FEMA will not reverse its decision to deny matching 100% of the State of North Carolina’s expenditures used for Hurricane Helene recovery.

In a letter to Governor Josh Stein (D) dated May 22nd, 2025, FEMA’s acting administrator, David Richardson, said:

“This is in response to your April 25, 2025, appeal of the denial of your request for an extension to the cost share waiver under major disaster FEMA-4827-DR that was declared on September 28, 2024, due to Tropical Storm Helene. You specifically requested an extension of the 100 percent federal cost share for debris removal and emergency protective measures, including direct federal assistance for an additional 180 days.

After a careful and thorough review of all the information available, including that contained in your initial request for a cost share adjustment and appeal, we have concluded that an extension of the 100 percent federal cost share for debris removal and emergency protective measures, including direct federal assistance for an additional 180 days under major disaster declaration FEMA-4827-DR is not warranted.”

The letter did not offer an explanation as to why FEMA deemed the reimbursement is not warranted. The decision leaves it up to the state to figure out how to pay for at least $200 million in additional recovery expenses.

In a statement, Gov. Stein responded:

“The first step to help western North Carolina recover is to clean up all the debris. So far, we have removed more than 12 million cubic yards of debris from roads and water ways, but given the immense scale of the wreckage, we have only scratched the surface. FEMA’s denial of our appeal will cost North Carolina taxpayers potentially hundreds of millions of dollars to clean up out west. The money we have to pay toward debris removal will mean less money towards supporting our small businesses, rebuilding downtown infrastructure, repairing our water and sewer systems, and other critical needs.

“Despite this news, we are going to stay the course. We will keep pushing the federal and state governments to do right by western North Carolina. We will keep working with urgency, focus, and transparency to get any appropriated money on the ground as quickly as we can to speed the recovery. We will not forget the people of western North Carolina.”

Stein’s office said it is also asking the Trump administration and the U.S. Congress to send $19 billion to North Carolina for disaster relief which would include $11.5 billion in new appropriations and $7.5 billion in allocations from previous appropriations.

>>1407936 (OP)
They voted for this. I can't wait for Trump to predict with a sharpie where the big hurricanes will hit this season.

TUGO

Last time FEMA went to NC, the locals shot at them to avoid being put into secret camps.

>>1407939
Biden didn't lift a pinkie to help any disaster victims either but don't let me stop you from proceeding with your retarded daily humiliation ritual

>>1407936 (OP)
>North Carolina
Don't know if he voted Republican before, but LGR's Clint Basinger will be voting Democrat in future.

>>1407966
>Biden didn't lift a pinkie to help any disaster victims
Yeah, all that federal money just came from nowhere.

>>1407966
>Biden didn't lift a pinkie to help any disaster victims either
Ok, so, in your mind, Biden didn't help these people. Trump then complained that Biden didn't help these people. Trump then refused to help these people as well. Do I have this right?

>>1407963
never happened

>>1407978
yeah, it did. it was a handful of local morons, but they were shooting at FEMA employees who were helping out after flooding.

so many lies in this thread. FEMA responds when states cannot adequately handle an emergency, whether it's a storm or any other disaster. Trump and his DOGE buddies have greatly reduced funding for this.

>>1407992
The story is that a FEMA employee directied workers to avoid houses displaying political signs or flags supporting then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

Trump and some other Republicans have blasted the White House’s response, accusing the administration of failing to help people and claiming FEMA is prioritizing Democratic-leaning areas and sending money to migrants instead of storm victims,

N'YUCK N'YUCK


https://mynbc15.com/news/connect-to-congress/fema-leader-faces-questions-about-hurricane-relief-denying-aid-to-trump-supporters

>>1407936 (OP)
I hope they all die starving and homeless. I love this. Should have voted for the right people. I now laugh when you die.

>>1408000
Good. Clean up your own shit, we're sick of paying for it. I voted for Trump btw. Stop asking for free shit

>>1408016
>>1408017
When did Americans become so cold and heartless toward their fellow citizens?

>>1408018
People laughing at suffering because they voted the wrong way and everyone started doing it. Honestly I prefer it this way. Builds character.

>>1408018
You can only have so much sympathy when you warn someone repeatedly that what they're doing will result in horrible outcomes for themselves and their loved ones, only for them to do it anyways.

>>1408018
>When did Americans become so cold and heartless toward their fellow citizens?
Hoping people get what they voted for, what they wanted, isn't heartless. It's compassionate.

Why would you not want people to get what they want? What's wrong with you?

>>1408017
>Stop asking for free shit
I'm gllad to hear that you will not be accepting your social security when you turn 67 or whatever it will be when you maybe grow old

>>1408000
FEMA refused to even pick up private donations from outside the state and deliver them. FEMA is so incompetent and inefficient that they just come off as "evil" to the average person. It's why the FEMA camps became a meme.

>>1408018
That's Trump's America. Empathy is the enemy, right?

>>1408039
As if we're still going to have social security by then.

>>1408045
Not true you fucking retard. Fell for more facebook memes again.
>https://www.foxcarolina.com/2024/10/06/fema-puts-rumors-rest-over-claims-taking-resources-western-north-carolina/
The funny thing is FEMA doesn't even take donations. The whole point is they have the resources in the first place and thus don't need them. The orgs in charge of distributing donations are completely separate.

>>1408053
>As if we're still going to have social security by then.
Republicans: they're going to end social security. Been ending it since 1986.
Must be almost mid-term o'clock if we're seeing this statement. Nice electioneering though.
I'm sure it'll work on the stupid olds this time.
>we
This is America, Canacoon.

>>1408067
>the company responsible for doing the thing is asked "are you doing the thing?"
>says no
Yeah because why would a federal agency ever lie about anything ever

>>1408085
>>>/x/

>>1408016
This. They voted selfishly. They deserve the consequences

>>1408067
Go motherfucking fuck yourself faggot. I live in Charlotte and was volunteering in Asheville after Helene. FEMA wasn't being given the donations, private donors were donating to the people there. One person in SC donated over 100 propane tanks and they just asked FEMA to pick it up and they not only refused, but they didn't allow volunteers to go in and cut down the trees in the road and they banned private truckers from delivering supplies. There's a reason people started threatening FEMA employees. You are lying like a motherfucker

>>1408089
>we've investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong
Great insight faggot

>>1408093
The narrative you wish was true has no basis in reality.

>>1408091
>One person in SC donated over 100 propane tanks and they just asked FEMA to pick it up and they not only refused, but they didn't allow volunteers to go in and cut down the trees in the road and they banned private truckers from delivering supplies.
Ok.
1. As I JUST FUCKING POINTED OUT, FEMA isn't the people you donate to directly. They don't need donations, they already have the shit. This is like trying to donate clothes to a fucking Target; they don't need them because they already have their own stock. FEMA isn't going to take donations, they'll direct you to the actual charity/volunteer orgs that do. You try to forcibly bring them shit on site, now they have to spend additional manpower getting it to those orgs for them to look over and distribute because your retarded ass can't read if they don't just tell you to leave.
2. You can't just amass random volunteers to clear roads. It's dangerous and they don't know if everyone there knows what they're doing. Especially if say, the actual stability of the road itself is compromised and now it's no longer safe for trucks to go on.
3. FEMA is perfectly fine with private trucks delivering supplies... IF they actually fucking registered with them first so they can coordinate. If you just try to drive right into a hurricane ravaged state with a truck they're obviously gonna fucking stop you like they would any other car trying to go down what's effectively a closed road.

Also, I'm pretty sure you're lying about all of this anyway. And just in case, so you know, threatening the main people trying to fix your state is a retarded idea anyways.

>>1408085
Ok so do you have any video proof of any of this shit happening, or do you just have random all caps posts on facebook?

>>1408100
>Also, I'm pretty sure you're lying about all of this anyway
Yeah, they're a compulsively lying brazilian troll who goons to tranny porn when they're not shitting up the board.
But at least you gave them attention and validated the stinky turds they keep dropping, so good for you

>>1408101
Eyewitness testimony from the people who actually dealt with FEMA post-helene.
The fags who said that shit was a conspiracy tend to be A) not American or B) libshits who also unironically believed that Biden was mentally fit for office because they heard it on the news.
In fact, most democrats are the kinds of retards who don't believe anything unless they hear it from a television screen.

>>1408100
>You can't just amass random volunteers to clear roads.
Yeah you can. That's what happened in NC before FEMA started preventing them from helping, restricted airspace and began spreading rumors that militias were hunting FEMA members.
Americans fucking died because of FEMA interfering with rescue efforts.

>>1407939
please be dc and california then have him deny federal emergency aid on the basis of their online posts since that'd be giving money to domestic terrorism.

>>1408103
>Eyewitness testimony from the people who actually dealt with FEMA post-helene.
And none of them, in the year 2024, recorded a fucking cell phone video? Hell, I don't even have names to these faces, just other people saying "yeah I know a guy (potentially who also knew a guy) who tried to do it and FEMA totally stopped him."

>>1408104
>Yeah you can.
No you can't retard. If you try to go into a disaster zone without coordinating with any of the actual government or volunteer organizations assisting there, you're gonna rightfully get fucking refused. For all intents and purposes they have to consider you as someone who has no idea what they're doing, no idea how to do it, and could be just as much of a danger to themselves as they are any one in need of aid.
>restricted airspace
Didn't happen at all. Stop making up fanfic.
>began spreading rumors that militias were hunting FEMA members.
No, you retards started doing that. By either making facebook shitposts about how you'd gun down any of "them FEMA bastards".
>https://abc7chicago.com/post/fema-threats-helene-relief-operations-paused-north-carolina-due-reports-armed-militia-threatening-crews/15427615/

>>1408106
>And none of them, in the year 2024, recorded a fucking cell phone video?
They did. But democrats screeched that it was all a misinformation conspiracy antivaxxer militia-run insurrectionist conspiracy theory like this retard >>1408067 just did, so nobody listened. And then all the videos were deplatformed. Same shit with the eyewitness testimony.
There was literally video of an unmarked blackhawk using rotor downwash to destroy supplies at numerous locations, but when people started talking about it, the national guard rushed out and claimed it was their fault instead.
A lot of this shit was simply due to the fact that federal employees didn't want to lose their fucking jobs for being incompetent, so they covered their asses as hard as possible.

>>1408107
>If you try to go into a disaster zone without coordinating with any of the actual government or volunteer organizations assisting there, you're gonna rightfully get fucking refused.
The purpose of the government is to protect its people, retard. What do you think should happen if the government keeps fucking things up? That nobody should get help?
>Didn't happen at all. Stop making up fanfic.
How the fuck do you know, faggot?
>No, you retards started doing that.
Again, how the fuck do you know? Because the media told you? The same one that lied about Biden was ackshually totally healthy?
You fucking retard.

>>1408109
>The purpose of the government is to protect its people, retard. What do you think should happen if the government keeps fucking things up? That nobody should get help?
Yeah, and that includes making sure retards who have no idea what they're doing aren't getting themselves or others in additional trouble. Next time there's a local fire, go try and demand you be allowed to assist the firefighters. Very good way to get arrested.
>How the fuck do you know, faggot?
Because it didn't happen. Show me the record of FEMA restricting airspace any more than it usually is.
>Again, how the fuck do you know?
Nice job ignoring the literal article of a guy who was arrested for doing that exact thing

>>1408108
Nothing is deleted off the internet anon, show them.

>There was literally video of an unmarked blackhawk using rotor downwash to destroy supplies at numerous locations
Oh I remember this. It was one helicopter at one location, and the national guard promptly admitted it was their fuckup and took responsibility. Which seems like the exact opposite of what you're talking about.

>>1408100
You're not listening retard. FEMA was the problem. The hurricane relief effort would have actually been way better for everyone if FEMA had just fucked off and not even been there. Don't even get me started on them all of the examples of them refusing to let anyone else help

>>1408105
>Trump's political enemies are domestic terrorists
That totally isn't going to bite the MAGA cult in the ass once Trump is out of the picture.

>>1408118
who cares, they just need to come up with some justification like do you seriously think trump supporters were shooting at FEMA agents to the point they had to issue an order to avoid their homes?
Demorats did it before its time for trump to purge the domestic terrorists, preach about how the money should be going to americans who aren't out to burn flags or commit terror acts. Or that being a terrorist disqualifies you from federal aid they'll bite

>>1408119
you're literally not american

>>1408121
you're a delusional twat
>magas didn't do anything but if it happened to the dems people will definitely care
>the maga movement will be over if trump does to the far-left what they did to the magas
kekeke

>>1408117
>You're not listening retard. FEMA was the problem.
Then why are you still begging them for help? Shockingly, donations and volunteers without proper organization are fucking useless.

>>1408117
>The hurricane relief effort would have actually been way better for everyone if FEMA had just fucked off and not even been there
No, what would've happened is a bunch of retards would've gotten themselves killed or in trouble, donations would've been plundered from like a fucking treasure chest, and they would've been even worse off with tons of people being completely without help because the actual trained rescuers weren't there. Not to mention all the financial assistance would've fucking vanished.

>>1408110
helping firefighters isn't going to get you arrested lmao you lying little shit that you are fuck outta here

>>1408130
No one is begging them for help. I didn't write the article and I'm not OP.
>>1408131
Are you delusional? FEMA has never not been incompetent in the past twenty years

>>1408135
Retard the firefighters aren't going to put up with having to risk their lives and the people they're trying to save because one retard went in and made himself an additional person in need of rescue. They're going to block you and if you keep draining their manpower they're going to have a cop detain you.

Shockingly, rescue personnel don't like people who for all they know will go in and add to the list of people they need to immediately rescue from a dangerous scenario.

>>1408143
That's funny because they didn't do shit to help and the residents were forced to do it themselves

>>1408145
Clearly the solution is less government funding then. Government that refuses to work for the people shouldn't be involved at all. You're getting what you want. No tax on tips and no federal "aid".

>>1408145
If they didn't do anything to help, why would the states keep asking the Trump administration to extend the emergency aid? Why would they go to the trouble of going through bureaucracy to extend something that doesn't help?

>>1408018
Right wing grift aimed to convince people that helping your fellow man is communism and empathy is a sin so that we can cut welfare programs in favor of billionaire tax cuts. This is shilled by right wing influencers until their retarded fan base genuinely believes it, similar to Andrew Tate's sigma grindest grift.

>>1408111
>It was one helicopter at one location
It was a lie, because there were two helicopters, not one.
One was a blackhawk with its transponder turned off. The other was a chinook that destroyed trailers with rotor downwash.

>>1408110
>Show me the record of FEMA restricting airspace any more than it usually is.
https://x.com/USDOT/status/1841565072360968304
>Nice job ignoring the literal article of a guy
*One guy* threatened FEMA, which FEMA used as an excuse to avoid helping people.

>>1408175
Are you genuinely retarded to compare a "Don't fly a fucking drone in disaster zones" to restricted airspace.
>*One guy* threatened FEMA, which FEMA used as an excuse to avoid helping people.
One guy got arrested for it. He was not the only one doing it.
>https://apnews.com/article/fema-north-carolina-disinformation-threats-militia-c1595fef596d0f78638ba4177bfa76af

>>1408190
>they didn't restrict airspace
>okay, so they did restrict airspace, but it's not a big deal
Just as a reminder: FEMA was preventing NGOs from using helicopters to help people in stranded areas.

>>1408299
Just a reminder that a drone operator took out the only available firefighting plane equipped for both salt water and high winds during the last round of California wildfires and airspace restrictions on drones in emergencies are completely fucking reasonable.

Also the thing you're bitching about didn't happen.