Hurricane Helene, which devastated the Southeast recently, was not unexpected—October is hurricane season, and such storms are to be expected. Instead, it is the shameful aftermath—the White House’s and Vice President Kamala Harris’ remarkably inept and tone-deaf reaction, the administration’s fabrication that FEMA spent hundreds of millions of dollars on illegal immigrants, and the subsequent warning that hurricane victims might not have enough emergency funding. There have been urgent warnings from liberal news outlets that criticism of the government’s rescue work is “misinformation,” and there has been conjecture that the government’s belated recovery effort may keep Trump supporters from voting in the forthcoming election.
It was the ideal storm for Harris’ campaign. And things might grow worse when the powerful Hurricane Milton makes landfall in Florida, posing more difficulties for the incompetent White House.
After Hurricane Helene, KJP came under fire for sending out conflicting messages on whether or not to use FEMA resources for migrants.
Alejandro Mayorkas, the head of Homeland Security, declared that the federal government was almost out of money to support relief efforts for hurricanes as early rescue operations got underway. Although FEMA was “meeting immediate needs,” he claimed that the agency lacked the funding to see its mission through.
