Op-ed: How FEMA Spending on Migrants Exploded Under Biden

Elon Musk is targeting what he says is out-of-control spending by the Federal Emergency Management Agency on migrants.

He has plenty of places to start. Federal spending on migrants skyrocketed under President Joe Biden, often in obscure ways.

The current crisis started in 2019, when President Trump — then in his first term — asked Congress for additional money to handle the influx of migrant children.

Democrats, who falsely claimed Trump was “caging kids,” took their time giving him the money to help. In summer 2019, $30 million was added to FEMA’s Emergency Food and Shelter Program.

Trump asked for EFSP to be ended in his FY 2020 and FY 2021 budget requests as duplicative of other federal activities, but as Ronald Reagan explained, “a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth.”

After taking office, President Biden pushed for legislation called the American Rescue Plan.

ARP appropriated $400 million for EFSP, plus an additional $110 million for “humanitarian relief,” which became a separate line item, EFSP-H.

Already a money pit, this is where things start getting ridiculous.

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