A $30,000 FEMA National Flood Insurance Program check meant to pay for a registered Republican voter’s Tampa Bay-area Florida trailer that was destroyed by Hurricane Helene back in September has bounced twice since it finally arrived in March, WFLA reports on what sure sounds like more of the usual DOGE bullshit coming for anti-waste, fraud, and abuse voters who cast a ballot for it.
Unaffiliated voter Robert Paul, 57, and Republican wife Yvonne, 54, reached out to the TV station’s investigative-watchdog-advocate-something reporter Shannon Behnken, nom de guerre “Better Call Behnken,” last month to nag the NFIP. Behnken was told that the agency had been in the middle of changing banks when the check bounced but the Pauls should try cashing it again right away.
“When we resubmitted it, it again came back as no good, so now the bank has told us they will not resubmit that. They’re going to need a new check. How am I literally out of the tens of thousands of people that filed claims probably, I’m assuming, as far as the damage went. How am I the only person that this happened to?” said Robert, understandably frustrated after in all likelihood having bought into propaganda about how the Biden Administration was deliberately neglecting him and his fellow Floridians for political purposes and voting accordingly, possibly even thinking a certified check for $500,000 in a priority overnight envelope would’ve landed in his mailbox on January 21st.
“Paul said he was told Tuesday afternoon that a new check is on its way and should arrive later this week,” WFLA writes. It’s not clear if “Better Call Behnken” will be following up with him on that.