Media Blackout? Trump's New FEMA Has Handled 80 Percent of Cases in Western NC in Just 5 Days - Biden Had 116 Days
By: Jack Davis (The Western Journal)
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the Trump administration is taking care of business for North Carolina residents hit hard by Hurricane Helene.
"President Trump came in and visited this community, and in less than 20 days secured over $54 million for families in need and registered 2,600 families that needed assistance and hadn't gotten that type of help to get signed up for the programs that we have," Noem said in a post on social media platform X.
"In the past five days, we've decreased the number of open cases by almost 80 percent," she said.
"President Trump is ensuring that communities aren't forgotten, and he launched the first major initiative to connect farmers with recovery assistance as well," she said.
BREAKING: Kristi Noem announces that FEMA has addressed 80% of the cases in Western North Carolina within just five days.
Real leadership.
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Hurricane Helene hit the U.S. in late September, causing its worst damage in North Carolina, which was hit on Sept. 27.
Trump denounced the response of the Federal Emergency Management Agency under former President Joe Biden during a visit to North Carolina.
"At one point, half of the emergency calls to FEMA went unanswered. That's real bad. FEMA was not doing their job," Trump said, according to a White House transcript of his Jan. 24 remarks.
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"Biden did a bad job," Trump said. According to calculations by The Western Journal, Biden was president for 116 days after Helene's rains stopped. And yet, Trump said, the region has not recovered.
"Some residents still don't have hot water, drinking water, or anything else. And many of them don't have quarters. They don't have anything. They got a stipend for what they lost, and we're going to take care of it. This is totally unacceptable, and I'll be taking strong action to get North Carolina the support that you need to quickly recover and rebuild. We're working on it very hard," Trump said.
FEMA now says 153,000 households have received assistance since the storm ended, according to KATC-TV.
Noem said the recovery efforts of the Trump era have only begun.
"FEMA can often be slow and confusing and a lot of paperwork. I heard that over and over and over again today. And we're going to fix that," Noem said, according to the North State Journal.
"I'll promise you one thing: President (Donald) Trump has committed, and I'm committed with him, to bringing FEMA into the 21st century."
Trump issued an executive order to review FEMA's structure and operations. Noem addressed that during her visit.
"You've heard him make comments that he might even want to end it and have it be a process where the federal government sends block grants or sends the dollars to the state or to the local communities, and they decide how it's spent," Noem said, according to USA Today.
"I want to be clear; I heard from people today that had good stories and positive testimonies of what FEMA has done. There were some folks that got their checks promptly, had the assistance that they needed, and we appreciate that, but we also know that isn't true for everybody," Noem said.
Noem elaborated on that in a Sunday interview.
"We still need the resources and the funds and the finances to go to people that have these types of disasters, like Hurricane Helene and the fires in California," Noem said, according to The Washington Post. "But you need to let the local officials make the decisions on how that is deployed, so it can be deployed much quicker."
Noem said changes will be made in consultation with legislators so that reforming FEMA is "done correctly and that we're still there to help folks who have a terrible disaster or crisis in their life."
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And the hits just keep on comin'.
They have fired people from FEMA. That is a start. Long way to go.
And despite direction from a former "supervisor" they are helping EVERYBODY regardless of who they support. You know, doing the RIGHT THING.
Her name was Marn’i Washington and she said that it was part of a policy at FEMA and she wasn't the only one.
A FEMA official backed up Washington’s claims, telling The Post the agency’s practice of skipping Trump-supporting houses — or avoiding “white or conservative-dominated” disaster zones altogether — is an open secret at the agency that has been going on for years.
FEMA worker accused of telling staff to skip hurricane-ravaged Trump homes claims it was common practice: 'This is not isolated'
Funny how quickly she disappeared from the news.
It wasn't a surprise it was happening, but it was amazing she said it in public.
Related to our friends on the left:
I would like to hear Joe Biden say that Deanne Criswell did a dam good job and hear what the left would say. I also find interesting that its took years for Biden to start getting minimal assistance to NC but got assistance to California fire victims almost before the fires were out. It couldn't be because those Californians are his supporters?
That's Biden's FEMA. This is Trump's.
Trump wants states to handle disasters without FEMA.
Anyone who believes that doesn't know shit about insurance or how FEMA operates. Logistically, that claim cannot be true unless Noem just decided to just send a frozen turkey to everyone and close 80% of the claims without looking at them. The fact that this is being cheered with absolutely ZERO evidence that her claim is true is hilarious and sad at the same time. Only poor deluded morons actually believe this shit.
I suppose if what she is saying is that she came in and closed 80% of the claims because they'd already been paid by the Biden administration, perhaps that would be possible to do anything with the 80% (roughly 122,000 claimants) in 5 days. Thats almost 25,000 per day which unless you have a workforce of 5,000 all working fulltime on it, it simply isn't what Noem is claiming.
I also find it hilarious that so many MAGAites were up in arms over the Biden administration handling of the NC flooding as they bitched about response times and aid getting there fast enough, but then when the fires hit California all the MAGAites are screaming about how they shouldn't have to pay for anything out in liberal California and it must all be their fault. Typical hypocrites but to be expected from such worthless trash.
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