{"id":15033,"date":"2024-10-15T13:40:28","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T13:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15033"},"modified":"2024-10-15T13:40:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T13:40:33","slug":"donald-trumps-many-many-lies-about-hurricane-helene-debunked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15033","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump\u2019s many, many lies about Hurricane Helene, debunked"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;FEMA does have a program \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fema.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/fema_ia-quick-reference_serious-needs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Serious Needs Assistance<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 that gives recipients $750 each if they qualify, but it\u2019s one of many aid offerings that disaster victims can receive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fema.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/fema_ia-quick-reference_serious-needs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">barrier to qualify is low<\/a>, most people affected by the storm are likely eligible, and recipients are not limited to this $750 in support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Serious Needs Assistance is supposed to provide rapid relief to people who need cash to cover immediate needs like water, food, and first aid. That relief is intended to temporarily help while people wait to hear about approval for other aid programs that could provide more robust funds for larger issues like home repairs.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/376982\/trump-hurricane-helene-fema-lies-debunked\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/376982\/trump-hurricane-helene-fema-lies-debunked<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;FEMA does have a program \u2014 Serious Needs Assistance \u2014 that gives recipients $750 each if they qualify, but it\u2019s one of many aid offerings that disaster victims can receive.<br \/>\nThe barrier to qualify is low, most people affected by the storm are likely eligible, and recipients are not limited to this $750 in support.<\/p>\n<p>Serious Needs Assistance is supposed to provide rapid relief to people who need cash to cover immediate needs like water, food, and first aid. That relief is intended to temporarily help while people wait to hear about approval for other aid programs that could provide more robust funds for larger issues like home repairs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/376982\/trump-hurricane-helene-fema-lies-debunked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1527,1749,564,1232,1029],"class_list":["post-15033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-aid","tag-disaster","tag-fema","tag-hurricane","tag-misinformation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15033"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15035,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15033\/revisions\/15035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}