‘Amer­i­ca Last’: GOP Sens Slam Biden For Send­ing Africa $1 Bil­lion As Hur­ri­cane-Rav­aged Regions Strug­gle

Sev­er­al GOP sen­a­tors slammed Pres­i­dent Joe Biden for send­ing $1 bil­lion for human­i­tar­i­an aid to Africa while Amer­i­cans are still recov­er­ing from recent dev­as­tat­ing hur­ri­canes.

Dur­ing a trip to Ango­la, Biden announced Tues­day that the U.S. will be send­ing $1 bil­lion to Africa to fund human­i­tar­i­an ini­tia­tives help­ing Africans dis­placed by droughts and food inse­cu­ri­ty, draw­ing the ire of Repub­li­can sen­a­tors who believe strong­ly that the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment should be spend­ing to help Amer­i­cans like those in North Car­oli­na and Flori­da whose lives were upend­ed by Hur­ri­canes Mil­ton and Helene this autumn. (RELATED: May­orkas Bemoans Lack Of FEMA Cash For Hur­ri­canes After Spend­ing Near­ly $1 Bil­lion On Migrant Cri­sis)

“The Biden admin­is­tra­tion con­tin­ues to put Amer­i­ca last on the world stage. The Amer­i­can peo­ple are sick and tired of hav­ing their tax dol­lars sent over­seas when we have dis­as­ters to clean up at home,” Repub­li­can Alaba­ma Sen. Tom­my Tuberville told the Dai­ly Caller News Foun­da­tion. “This is why Pres­i­dent Trump won in a land­slide on Novem­ber 5th. I look for­ward to Pres­i­dent Trump putting Amer­i­ca FIRST again in Jan­u­ary.”

“Pres­i­dent Biden is spend­ing his last days in office putting Amer­i­ca behind the rest of the world,” Repub­li­can Utah Sen. Mike Lee said in a state­ment shared with the DCNF. “Amer­i­cans are still suf­fer­ing from recent nat­ur­al dis­as­ters, FEMA employ­ees were proven to have dis­crim­i­nat­ed against fam­i­lies because of their pol­i­tics, and Pres­i­dent Biden cel­e­brates send­ing a bil­lion dol­lars overseas—business as usu­al for his admin­is­tra­tion. Jan­u­ary 20th can’t come soon enough.”

CBS Evening News ran a Tues­day seg­ment explain­ing how hun­dreds of Amer­i­cans resid­ing in west­ern North Car­oli­na are still liv­ing in tents, recre­ation­al vehi­cles and shel­ters as the cold win­ter months approach while they con­tin­ue to pick up the pieces after Helene dev­as­tat­ed their com­mu­ni­ties. The $1 bil­lion announced Tues­day by Biden will “assist coun­tries across Sub-Saha­ran Africa, includ­ing Ango­la, to respond to human­i­tar­i­an crises includ­ing dis­place­ment and El Nino-induced drought,” accord­ing to the White House.

The Biden admin­is­tra­tion also drew con­sid­er­able scruti­ny after The Dai­ly Wire report­ed on Nov. 8 that a Fed­er­al Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency (FEMA) super­vi­sor instruct­ed sub­or­di­nates to avoid homes out­ward­ly dis­play­ing sup­port for Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump as they sur­veyed dam­age from Hur­ri­cane Mil­ton in Flori­da. Biden and Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris were also crit­i­cized for being absent from the White House as Hur­ri­cane Helene unfold­ed and left a trail of destruc­tion across the south­east.

Repub­li­can Flori­da Sen. Rick Scott also ripped the admin­is­tra­tion for send­ing $1 bil­lion more abroad as Amer­i­cans are strug­gling in the wake of nat­ur­al dis­as­ters at home.

“Is Biden seri­ous? Fam­i­lies in Flori­da and across our nation are wait­ing for dis­as­ter relief after their liveli­hoods were destroyed from hur­ri­canes, but Biden flees to Africa and hands out tax dol­lars like can­dy,” Scott wrote in a Tues­day post to X, for­mer­ly known as Twit­ter. “We need Pres­i­dent Trump and his Amer­i­ca first pri­or­i­ties in office ASAP.”

The White House did not respond imme­di­ate­ly to a request for com­ment.

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