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In just a few short weeks, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will run out of funding, according to Administrator Deanne Criswell.

During an appearance on “Face the Nation,” Criswell painted a dire picture of FEMA’s continuity, or lack thereof, as the nation enters the harsh hurricane season, which already saw a rare hurricane-turned-tropical storm named Hilary strike the southland of California.

“Our estimates do still say that we may have a depletion of our fund,” Criswell stated, adding that she is watching FEMA’s disaster relief fund “very closely” as September approaches.

“Now it’s pushed into the middle of September. And as we get closer to that, I mean, this is a day-by-day monitoring of the situation.”

Already this year before August 8 when Criswell made these statements, there have been 15 major disaster events in the United States so far, each of them causing more than $1 billion in damage.

This tally does not include the recent “wildfires” in Maui, which decimated Lahaina and caused an estimated $6 billion in damage to the popular, but now-destroyed, coastal Hawaiian city.

It also does not account for the peak hurricane season, which will begin on September 11 this year.

(Related: Perhaps it is a good thing that FEMA is running out of money, seeing as how the agency exists more to tyrannize Americans rather than help them in times of need.) Biden asks recessed Congress for $12 billion to replenish FEMA’s coffers; FEMA says it’s not enough

Earlier this month, fake president Joe Biden asked Congress to apportion another $12 billion to replenish FEMA’s disaster fund, though Congress is currently on recess until after Labor Day.

There seems to be plenty of never-ending money to send to Volodymr Zelensky over in Ukraine, but never enough to help actual Americans why is that?

Criswell is not even happy with the $12 billion Biden asked for, though, as she insists this will probably not be enough cash for what the agency is used to having in its coffers.

“The $12 billion was going to be able to cover some of the immediate needs that we were going to need to get through this fiscal year,” she said. “As we’re continuing to see the increasingly severe weather events, that dollar amount may need to go up as we go into next fiscal year.”

In other words, because of “climate change,” which is fake, FEMA needs more money than ever before because the weather is supposedly getting nastier because of all that meat-eating and car-driving still taking place on American soil.

“The biggest thing that the president [sic] needs to see is just the actual impact,” Criswell further whined. “It really feels different when you’re on the ground and can see the total devastation of Lahaina. He’ll talk to some of the families that have been impacted by this and hear their stories.”

“He’s really going to be able to, one, bring hope to this community, but also reassure them that the federal government is there. He has directed them to bring the resources they need to help them as they begin to start their recovery and their rebuilding process.”

Criswell also talked about Hurricane Hilary, a major storm that just struck Southern California. Though it did not cause the level of damage that meteorologists were predicting, FEMA says it needs more money to handle that disaster as well.

“We had a lot of staff already on the ground,” Criswell said. “We are moving in some additional resources to make sure that we can support anything that California might need, but they’re a very capable state as well and they have a lot of resources.”

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Pirates ball-crusher Cruz accepts HR Derby invite

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Pittsburgh Pirates center fielder Oneil Cruz accepted an invitation on Tuesday to compete in Monday’s Home Run Derby in Atlanta.

Cruz is the fifth player to commit to the competition, held one day before the All-Star Game. The others are Ronald Acuna Jr. of the Atlanta Braves, Cal Raleigh of the Seattle Mariners, James Wood of the Washington Nationals and Byron Buxton of the Minnesota Twins.

Cruz, 26, is known for having a powerful bat and regularly delivers some of the hardest-hit homers in the sport. His home run May 25 at home against the Milwaukee Brewers had an exit velocity of 122.9 mph and was the hardest hit homer in the 10-year Statcast era.

But Cruz has never hit more than 21 in a season, and that was in 2024. He’s on track to set a new high this year and has 15 in 80 games.

Cruz has 55 career homers in 324 games with the Pirates.

Cruz will be the first Pittsburgh player to participate in the Derby since Josh Bell in 2019. Other Pirates to be part of the event were Bobby Bonilla (1990), Barry Bonds (1992), Jason Bay (2005), Andrew McCutchen (2012) and Pedro Alvarez (2013).

Overall, Cruz is batting just .203 this season but leads the National League with 28 steals.

Among the players to turn down an invite to the eight-player field are two-time champion Pete Alonso of the New York Mets, Kyle Schwarber of the Philadelphia Phillies and 2024 runner-up Bobby Witt Jr. of the Kansas City Royals.

Defending champion Teoscar Hernandez of the Los Angeles Dodgers recently turned down a spot as a consideration to nagging injuries.

Top power threats Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees and Shohei Ohtani of the Dodgers also are expected to skip the event.

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Yanks moving Chisholm back to 2B after 3B stint

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New York Yankees All-Star Jazz Chisholm Jr., after making 28 starts in a row at third base, is moving back to second base starting with Tuesday’s game against the Seattle Mariners, manager Aaron Boone said.

Boone confirmed the change on the “Talkin’ Yanks” podcast on Tuesday.

Chisholm, who is batting .245 with 15 home runs, 38 RBIs and 10 steals in 59 games, has recently been bothered by soreness in his right shoulder, which he said is an issue only on throws.

He said he prefers to play second base and prepared in the offseason to exclusively play in that spot before injuries played havoc with Boone’s lineup card, starting with Chisholm’s oblique injury in May.

Third baseman Oswaldo Cabrera went down with a season-ending ankle injury on May 12.

DJ LeMahieu manned second base while Chisholm was at third, but Boone has a better glove option in Oswald Peraza, a utility man with a stronger arm plus defensive skills across the infield.

LeMahieu, 36, is batting .266 with two home runs and 12 RBIs this season.

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The personal collection of Willie Mays, including a Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded to the Hall of Famer by President Barack Obama, will head to auction via Hunt Auctions on Sept. 27-28 in San Francisco.

“Per Mays’ wishes, all proceeds from this auction will go to delivering education, training, and health services for youth through the Say Hey! Foundation which Willie Mays founded in 2000,” Hunt Auctions said in a statement.

Other items to be auctioned include Mays’ 1954 New York Giants World Series ring, his 1954 and 1965 NL MVP Awards, his Baseball Hall of Fame induction ring and his 1962 home San Francisco Giants uniform — photo-matched to that year’s MLB All-Star Game and two other games from that season.

There’s also a 1977 Stutz Blackhawk VI, custom made for Mays.

“We are deeply humbled and grateful to Willie Mays for having been selected to represent this important offering of his personal collection,” said David Hunt, president of Hunt Auctions, who also handled the auctioning of Bill Russell’s and Bill Walton’s personal collections.

“For all of his extraordinary achievements as a baseball player, Willie Mays wanted his enduring legacy to be helping children,” Jeff Bleich, Mays’ friend and the chair of the Say Hey! Foundation, said in a statement.

The collection’s first public display will be at the 2025 National Sports Collectors Convention, held at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois, from July 30 through Aug. 3.

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