Kamala Sends $157 Million to Lebanon After Claiming No Money for U.S. Hurricane Victims

by Daniel Greenfield
October 9, 2024 at 5:00 am

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21004/lebanon-aid-hurricane-helene

"To that end, the United States will provide nearly $157 million in additional assistance to the people of Lebanon... This additional support brings total U.S. assistance to Lebanon over the last year to over $385 million." — Vice President Kamala Harris, X.com, October 5, 2024.
$385 million for an Islamic terrorist state.
$20 million to Hurricane Helene survivors.

While there's not enough money for hurricane victims in America, Vice President Kamala Harris announced on October 5 that "the United States will provide nearly $157 million in additional assistance to the people of Lebanon... This additional support brings total U.S. assistance to Lebanon over the last year to over $385 million." $20 million to Hurricane Helene survivors. $157 million to Hezbollah. Those Hezbollah votes in Dearborn, Michigan don't come cheap. Pictured: Harris campaigns in Flint, Michigan on October 4, 2024. (Photo by Dominic Gwinn/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

According to Joe Biden, there's just no money for hurricane victims.

"Do you have any words to the victims of the hurricane?"

BIDEN: "We've given everything that we have."

"Are there any more resources the federal government could be giving them?"

BIDEN: "No." pic.twitter.com/jDMNGhpjOz
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 30, 2024

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas claims that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is running out of money. (And not because it blew through $1.4 billion on illegal aliens, that's dangerous misinformation.)

While there's not enough money for hurricane victims in America, after Israel took out Hezbollah Islamic terrorist leaders, Vice President Kamala Harris announced on October 5:

"The people of Lebanon are facing an increasingly dire humanitarian situation. I am concerned about the security and well-being of civilians suffering in Lebanon and will continue working to help meet the needs of all civilians there.

"To that end, the United States will provide nearly $157 million in additional assistance to the people of Lebanon for essential needs such as food, shelter, water, protection, and sanitation to help those who have been displaced by the recent conflict. This additional support brings total U.S. assistance to Lebanon over the last year to over $385 million."

$385 million for an Islamic terrorist state.

But there's a bold press release out at FEMA declaring that the "Biden-Harris Administration Provides More Than $20 Million to Hurricane Helene Survivors, Ongoing Search and Rescue Operations Continue in North Carolina".

$20 million to Hurricane Helene survivors.

$157 million to Hezbollah.

Those Hezbollah votes in Dearborn, Michigan don't come cheap.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

Reprinted by kind permission of the author and Front Page Magazine.

Follow Daniel Greenfield on X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook

© 2024 Gatestone Institute. All rights reserved. The articles printed here do not necessarily reflect the views of the Editors or of Gatestone Institute. No part of the Gatestone website or any of its contents may be reproduced, copied or modified, without the prior written consent of Gatestone Institute.

Recent Articles by Daniel Greenfield

Everything in the Middle East Means the Opposite, 2024-12-16
Biden Takes Credit for Syria Regime Change He Tried to Prevent, 2024-12-12
The Gentle Art of Negotiating with Terrorists, 2024-12-02
Thought Police, 2024-11-28
Socio-Feudalism's War on the Individual, 2024-11-22

receive the latest by email: subscribe to the free gatestone institute mailing list.

Comment on this item

31 Reader Comments

tiki • Oct 10, 2024 at 02:45

This is what you do when you want the Arab vote!
The writing is on the wall, written by Kamala Harris & her Bolshevik party.
YOU will always be the lowest step on the ladder for her career!!

Reply->

shloime • Oct 9, 2024 at 23:21

Lebanon may be many things, but it is not an Islamic terrorist state. Because Hezbollah is not Lebanon, and Lebanon is not Hezbollah. It's not entirely clear why the Biden administration is shipping in food aid to a country that has hosted a million Syrian refugees. And any minute now, Biden will announce the construction of a floating pier, just like the (useless) one in Gaza. This is pure theatre of the absurd.

Reply->

Sandra Smith

shloime • Oct 10, 2024 at 22:19

This is what you get from a senile, all but totally decompensated, old man who was an enemy of Israel all his adult life before his mind went, but the hate in his heart remains, now ungoverned! It's acting freely as it would have done by choice, for the past several decades, had it not been politically unprofitable to do so. He is aiding and abetting ing the enemies of those he hates; that includes those in the US who are standing still with Israel, and who oppose the agenda his bosses are guiding, along with all Jews around the world, and all believers in, and followers of, the risen Lord too.

Reply->

Sandra Smith • Oct 9, 2024 at 22:57

It's pretty clear exactly where real American citizens stand with the pretender seeking to squat in our house! Every foreign enemy of our nation will receive precedence over us.

Reply->

Ronald de Boer • Oct 9, 2024 at 19:49

This will reflect with the elections that people hopefully vote for TRUMP, so a little insight of what would happen if KAMALA is the next president.
And they would be willing to sacrifice ISRAEL, IF NECCESARY.

Reply->

Sandra Smith

Ronald de Boer • Oct 10, 2024 at 22:24

Trust me, she believes it's necessary, already, and the redeemed believers as well. She is Indian, with a half black father from a family of slaver owners from the Caribbean, and she was raised in Canada, not the US. She is not what she's trying to convince the world she is right now!

Reply->

Maha • Oct 9, 2024 at 19:29

I am trying to figure out how Kamala Cackles Harris sent any money anywhere. How can the Administration cut a check? I thought Congress is in charge of appropriations. Someone help me out here.

Reply->

Sandra Smith

Maha • Oct 10, 2024 at 22:28

Our Constitution has not been followed for decades by the corporation in DC pretending to be our "elected gov't", which includes the Congress, and which has handed it's duties off to the executive branch and a foreign owned bank.

Reply->

William Downey • Oct 9, 2024 at 13:24

Every American should be outraged by these actions.

$385 million to Lebanon, a country run by Hezbollah and Iran. How much of the financial aid will reach the Lebanese people?

$20 million for disaster relief in the United States. When totaled, the immediate and long-term costs will exceed even the $175 million given to Lebanon.

Placing Americans behind a terrorist state is not acceptable.

Reply->

Anthony Cress • Oct 9, 2024 at 11:24

How is it that the Executive Branch of government may issue millions and billions of dollars towards anyone or anything, when the nation's purse under the U.S. Constitution is in the hands of Congress? Because, by edict, apparently, all it takes is for the President or Vice President to say so? "So it is said, so it is done"?

Reply->

Sandra Smith

Anthony Cress • Oct 9, 2024 at 23:08

It's also quite clear our Constitution has not been viewed by our supposed "gov't leaders" as the supreme law of the land, to which they all lied in taking their oaths! We have been living in a tyranny for some time now, and it's making that increasingly plain to any paying attention.

Reply->

Peter C Kastellanos • Oct 9, 2024 at 10:16

This information that has to be on every front page and all internet news slots. I find this abuse of taxpayers funds. Obscene.

Reply->

Chevalier Noir • Oct 9, 2024 at 09:38

The tiresome litany of Biden/Harris perfidy grows longer. The current American regime's contempt for its own citizens is astounding. And yet... there's an even chance that voters, having been kicked in the teeth several times by Biden/Harris, will give that crowd four more years to continue the same ("Thank you, sir. May I have another?"). H.L. Mencken was dead right.

Reply->

Harvey Radnor • Oct 9, 2024 at 09:11

Well this is just typical of the ruling class worldwide no money for your own people that presumably voted you in but we have to keep sweet with our Muslim enclave. We have the same junk in the UK put the trouble making gimmegrants in 4 star warm hotels while pensioners freeze they are all reprehensible and that's being polite.

Reply->

Philip Davies • Oct 9, 2024 at 08:49

In a word: Disgusting.

Reply->

Tony Rice • Oct 9, 2024 at 08:23

It must be borne in mind the de facto President of USA is the Muslim Barack Obama, friend of IRAN and if Harris does win the election, his presidency will be even more pronounced.

Reply->

David Salinger

Tony Rice • Oct 9, 2024 at 16:09

Correct !

Reply->

Mahavir Jain • Oct 9, 2024 at 06:51

Americans have learnt nothing from experience world wide, especially in Europe, India. They must read the 'book' to know about reality of Islam, look around to learn from experiences elsewhere. And I shudder to think about Harris becoming President. What will happen go USA. And also to Israel, a champion of democracy, human rights, helping a terror organisation ...

Reply->

Sandra Smith

Mahavir Jain • Oct 9, 2024 at 23:23

"USA" is the registered trademark of the incorporated "gov't" in DC, not America, the nation that once was here; the nation some of my forebears fought to help "birth"; the nation that died on Valentine's Day 1871. Whatever this place is, and has been since that day over a century ago, it has not been America, but a false presentation of what she was.

Reply->

Edward C. Stengel • Oct 9, 2024 at 06:11

This is the perfect campaign message for Donald Trump. All he has to do is show this to the American people, how the Biden-Harris administration cares more about the Lebanese people than it does the victims of Hurricane Helena, and that should be the difference in the election.

Reply->

Sandra Smith

Edward C. Stengel • Oct 9, 2024 at 23:26

And the "Palestinians" and the Ukranians, and the Haitians, etc...

Reply->

Dan Yariv-Weisbuch • Oct 9, 2024 at 06:02

What is the most important weapon in Iran arsenal? Simple Dr Watson: USA

Reply->

Mark Harrison • Oct 9, 2024 at 06:01

You could not make this stuff up !

I just hope that the voters in the US read this - and decide against Harris - surely she must have lost the votes in the counties / states caught by Helene at the least.

As the article suggests - why are they currying favour with Lebanon and not their own people ???

Reply->

Beverly Hemmann • Oct 9, 2024 at 05:46

According to a researcher whose name escapes me: "So far this year, the United States has given: – $24,400,000,000 to Ukraine. – $11,300,000,000 to Israel. – $1,950,000,000 to Ethiopia. – $1,600,000,000 to Jordan. – $1,400,000,000 to Egypt. – $1,100,000,000 to Afghanistan. – $1,100,000,000 to Somalia. – $1,000,000,000 to Yemen. – $987,000,000 to Congo. – $896,000,000 to Syria. – $9,000 per illegal immigrant that has entered the U.S. That doesn't include the $157million given to Lebanon or the multi-million dollars given to Palestinian UNHRC
And Americans who have lost everything to Hurricane Helene will be getting $750, courtesy of FEMA

Reply->

Bull Herman

Beverly Hemmann • Oct 9, 2024 at 16:01

This is why we split off from England. Taxation, no representation.
As for the election? It's easy for DumbocRats to track how many ballots from republican voters have been returned via USPS.
All that must be done is to print up enough ballots to dump in to the system late on election night.
The Bible does not include US in End Times prophecies.
A stolen election, a quiet Marxist revolution, and a neutered military would accomplish all that.

Reply->

Sandra Smith

Beverly Hemmann • Oct 9, 2024 at 23:28

Excellent summation.

Reply->

Sandra Smith

Bull Herman • Oct 9, 2024 at 23:33

The end times are about His dealings with Israel, not other nations, except as they are directly impacting Israel during those times; it's clear already the US will not be dealing with Israel, hence no need to mention it.

Reply->

Bull Herman

Sandra Smith • Oct 10, 2024 at 16:35

Thank you. I enjoy reading your comments and learning from them as well.
I'm praying, and curiously awaiting to see if we have a true vote count or another midnight hijacking. Never did I ever expect to have so much stress about our domestic issues besides watching the world crumble around such anemic Swamp alleged leadership.
If Kamala wins, perhaps CA will fall off into the sea...

Reply->

Jan Hellsund • Oct 9, 2024 at 05:36

$157 Million to Lebanon? That's peanuts compared to the $21 Trillion + that the DoD and HUD misplaced recently.

Reply->

Sandra Smith

Jan Hellsund • Oct 9, 2024 at 23:34

Has anyone checked the banksters accounts?

Reply->

Solomon • Oct 9, 2024 at 05:22

No surprise here since Obama keeps writing the cheques or ordering cash on palates to Iran or Lately to HAMAS and sacrificing the Lebanon for Hezbollah or even the $8bn to Morsi and El-Shater all in the interest of destroying Israel

Reply->