you can literally read the budget passed by congress to show that money wasn't diverted from disaster relief to migrant, these were separate funding tranches: > consolidated appropriations act of 2024 public law no: 118-42 (03/08/2024).  >  h-congress/house-bill/2882/text congress appropriated $20.26 billion for the fema disaster relief fund in march 2024: "for necessary expenses in carrying out the robert t. stafford disaster relief and emergency assistance act (42 u.s.c. 5121 et seq.), $20,261,000,000, to remain available until expended." the dhs appropriations act, 2024 (p.l. 118-47, div. c, title ii) directed customs and border protection (cbp) to transfer $650 million to fema: "provided further, that $650,000,000 shall be transferred to ``federal emergency management agency--federal assistance'' to support sheltering and related activities provided by non-federal entities, in support of relieving overcrowding in short-term holding facilities of u.s. customs and border protection"  >  oduct/pdf/in/in12349/3 as someone who has actually worked in government budgeting, tracts of money that have been earmarked for specific projects can't simply be moved around at will without huge bureaucratic hurdles. in this case congress would have had to pass a new act to move the money from the sheltering fund to the disaster fund.  in any case the fema budget for fy 2024 is 80.9 billion usd, the money they had been given to sheltering represents 0.8% of the fema budget.
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