Ashley Moody likens Alejandro Mayorkas to ‘virus’ after he spotlights FEMA funding woes
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Florida’s top cop is sounding alarms about Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, communicating her expectation that Americans should be “outraged” by disaster funding shortfalls.

Attorney General Ashley Moody likened Mayorkas to a communicable disease during a television interview, saying he was “like a virus and (has) infected these what need to be healthy, strong fundamental programs to ensure the stability and safety of Americans in times of disaster.”

Moody is reacting to more than a billion dollars being programmed to the Shelter and Services Program in Fiscal Year 2023 and 2024.

Administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) under the auspices of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the program “provides financial support to non-federal entities to provide humanitarian services to noncitizen migrants following their release from (DHS) to support (U.S. Customs and Border Protection) in the safe, orderly and humane release of noncitizen migrants from short-term holding facilities.”

Moody blasted the program as having “siphoned off hundreds of millions of dollars into basically making it an illegal immigrant resettlement program.”

During a media availability on Wednesday, Mayorkas highlighted funding shortfalls in the wake of Hurricane Helene, which made landfall in Taylor County before the fast-moving storm progressed through Georgia and stalled out in the Blue Ridge Mountains, leaving historic rainfall totals that destroyed homes and entire towns.

“We are meeting the immediate needs with the money that we have. We are expecting another hurricane hitting,” Mayorkas said, per The Associated Press. “FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season.”

Moody asserts that the billion-dollar commitment to migrant resettlement could have made a material difference, likening the appropriation to a financial crime.

“They’re saying we need more money and of course they need more money because they’ve been laundering it from the true intended purpose of this fund that Congress set forth,” the Plant City Republican said.

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. His work also can be seen in the Washington Post, the New York Post, the Washington Times, and National Review, among other publications. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


17 comments

  • "E"

    October 3, 2024 at 10:56 am

    Good Morn ‘Ting Un-Decided Voters,
    Please think about what Ashley said in the above artical and I thsnk you for making the only logical choice of voting Trump.
    “E”

    • melody

      October 3, 2024 at 11:35 am

      Truth spoken

    • yew oweme

      October 4, 2024 at 11:45 am

      EARL, trump IS the epidemy of illogic. so, you are wrong as usual. worry about assley’s sphincter, that’s your usual concern.

    • Terry

      October 4, 2024 at 4:20 pm

      Two separate funds .Time to fact check Moody

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  • ScienceBLVR

    October 3, 2024 at 11:30 am

    Oh Ashley, you, your Governor, and that crazy band of brothers and sisters in the FL GOP have more than earned and are awarded the big Red letter “H” for the hypocrisy tome of the week!
    .. Moody blasted the program as having “siphoned off hundreds of millions of dollars…” of taxpayers money for, among many things, fighting frivolous and unconstitutional mandates, flying those “illegals” from TX to Mass, your supreme leaders failed presidental campaign, State guard who aren’t even in the state, Gosh, there’s oh so many. Here’s hoping we get an open sunshine accounting of what you have cost us in your tenure.. once you leave like a bad cold virus..

    • My Take

      October 3, 2024 at 11:45 am

      Trashly, like DeScumtis, has to make some pronouncement nearly daily. To stay in the news.

      • A day without Libturds

        October 3, 2024 at 11:58 am

        If he doesn’t you shit eaters cry Where’s Ron? No pleasing you pieces of subhuman trash.

        • My Take

          October 4, 2024 at 2:26 pm

          You MAGAits may not eat the pets, but you “approach them unnaturally”

    • A day without Libturds

      October 3, 2024 at 11:56 am

      You libturds are pathetic worms crawling around in your dirt. Everything you do is covered in dirt and slime.

      • Jojo

        October 3, 2024 at 12:54 pm

        Has it ever occurred to you that your posts sound like the ranting of a profane child?
        Try using rational arguments if you disagree with commenters.

        • yew oweme

          October 4, 2024 at 11:39 am

          JOJO, it helps to be rational, to act rational. lipturd, doesn’t sound too rational. lipturd may not even fully understand the concept of rationality.

      • My Take

        October 4, 2024 at 2:30 pm

        The Bible warns us about the basal MAGAits.
        Soulless demons in human form.

  • MHDuuuval

    October 3, 2024 at 2:28 pm

    The attempts at dehumanization of political opponents on this site today and recently are still another sign that Peachy is about to melt down. Might be time for a family member to call the local sheriff and have his arsenal removed until after the election — perhaps longer. (Florida does have a red flag law and some state sheriffs have used it regularly with good results.)

  • LexT

    October 4, 2024 at 8:06 am

    Moody is 1,000% correct. This administration has focused on so many things that are not traditionally American. The divide between the parties has never been larger. Natural disasters used to be universally treated as a tragedy. It used to be universally agreed that the US border followed an immigration policy. Things that weren’t political suddenly are. A lot of these things are things that I would bet if Democrat voters slowed down and voted privately they would not approve. Democrats are destroying their own invention Title IX. Wake up. Where are the Blue Dog Democrats? Where is the conscience in the Democratic party?

    • MHDuuuval

      October 4, 2024 at 6:00 pm

      Wake up, yourself. Migrants are on the move everywhere IN THE WORLD due to manmade and natural disasters not of their own making. In their place, would you navel gaze, or hit the road to try to keep your family alive?

  • yew oweme

    October 4, 2024 at 11:28 am

    LEXT, what would you know about the dem party? moody is bad, desantis is bad, scott is bad, that is what you should be talking about, you know, your people. my people, are not in control, so the maga cultist that are the scoundrels are the focus for me.

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