running low on money responding of this hurricane, they may have to stop work on older disasters until congress is able to refund that account. until congress can refund that account. look, you might say, victoria, oh, of course congress would replenish fema funds. well, i do think a lot of people thought they d take care of 9/11 victims, too, but we saw how protracted that was, right? i mean, regrettably, we ve become so hyperpartisan in this era and congress has become so deadlocked that pretty much everything is a tug-of-war and anything that before would not be considered contentious is considered contentious now. so the issue of fema funding is one of these issues where you think, it s going to pass, it s absolutely going to pass, and it doesn t. and chris, i want to take a further step back in terms of the shuffling around of the money from fema out of the department of homeland security. let s also think about what happens when we re taking money away from the larger nationa
administration s reprogramming of fema funds to support border operations. he was before and tweeting this. i m particularly concerned trump is pulling millions of dollars from fema to dt more immigrants and moment the administration is inhumane immigration policies. accrual, dangerous move at the height of hurricane season. the administration defending the transfer as routine and needed for lacking bed space. jillian: thank you very much. rob: the president taking part of us space command, responsible for planning and carrying out space missions and providing missile warnings as well. space command is seen as a precursor to the space for skamania military branch which would need approval from congress. jillian: do you have the right to remain stunning? women are going crazy over this california cop going viral on
well, it s a new world. i ve had a lot of experience dealing with budgets, the congress approval. it looks to me as if the trump administration has really changed the norms of the game. we used to have to go back and petition a congressional committee for their approval to move funds even when we were relatively sure they were legal. so here we re looking at hundreds of millions of dollars, potentially being diverted from the coast guard, from aviation security, from fema funds, all to head to the border. admittedly it is a problem at the border. 8 0,000-some-odd undocumented migrants in the month of july alone. double last year s rate at this month. but congress is supposed to have the power of the purse. this is really new ground for me. nancy, that s an action apparently the administration is preparing to take here. the president himself, though, as we just took you through in
now he s taking fema funds. he insults the people of puerto rico and insteends it by saying the best thing that happens to puerto rico. it is insulting and shows the epiphany of theinsensitivity. we felt the hurricane may have been dead on. it is absolute insensitive president that s totally about himself, all he sees, mania is an under statement when it comes to donald trump. he s tone deaf to the needs of the people of puerto rico that he can t be empathetic to them in a time of need. this is the 14th anniversary of hurricane katrina. that was a fema disaster.
enforcement. they hate border security. they hate border patrol. they hate ice. they believe in open borders. and if you disagree with them you are a racist. i just think that s on the pipe crazy. jon: the trump administration has been criticized for diverting fema funds, emergency preparedness funds to ice and border patrol for the southern border situation. it has also come to light the obama administration did the same thing. the numbers are pretty staggering back in 2014 the obama administration diverted $267 million from fema, $31 million from the coast guard. $35 million from transportation security administration and $70 million from customs and border protection. total of $405 million. a bigger number than the trump administration is talking about.