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https://nypost.com/2024/10/07/opinion/helene-reveals-a-rudderless-white-house-and-harris-flaws/

The failure of the Biden-Harris administration to take charge of 
urgently needed rescue and recovery efforts after Hurricane Helene 
underscores a key question: Who is really running this White House?

Right now, we have no clear answer.

President Biden’s and Vice President Kamala Harris’ cavalier 
indifference to the Americans fighting to survive in the disaster zone 
has left us — both longtime Democrats — speechless.

Substantively, politically and personally, both Biden and Harris had 
ample reason to step up in the aftermath of the storm’s horrific 
destruction.

Yet their administration has repeatedly failed Helene’s victims — and, 
by extension, the American people as a whole.

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The storm made landfall Sept. 26 in Florida and raged over inland parts 
of Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia, killing a confirmed 
232 people, with hundreds still missing.

But the administration’s slow response in mobilizing federal resources 
hampered recovery efforts, while Biden’s and Harris’ late and 
perfunctory visits to the disaster area to show support have made them 
appear woefully insensitive.


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Biden — who was vacationing in Delaware when the storm hit — glibly told 
reporters he had “commanded” the federal response by phone “for at least 
two hours,” hardly sufficient for an event this devastating.

Even more alarmingly, Harris, who is hoping to be our next president, 
was initially content with a brief FEMA photo op in the storm’s aftermath.

Only when it became a media talking point, nearly a week later, did the 
veep finally travel to a hard-hit part of the swing state of Georgia — 
an obviously political stop just weeks before Election Day.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp was one of many local officials who called out 
the administration for delaying much-needed federal aid.

Only 11 counties — out of the 90 likely to need aid — were initially 
made eligible for federal relief funds, Kemp complained, tying locals’ 
hands and undoubtedly worsening Helene’s impact in the Peach State.

It took six days for the White House to activate a paltry 1,000 military 
members to help deliver assistance — even though three of America’s 
premier military divisions with critical search and rescue experience 
are based within just a few hours of the hardest-hit areas in the 
Carolinas and Georgia.

Compare that to President George W. Bush, who ordered nearly 10,000 
troops to the Hurricane Katrina disaster zone in 2005.

If Biden and Harris wished to actually help Americans and not just pose 
for pictures, they should have immediately activated military assets for 
rescue efforts, and mobilized the Army Corps of Engineers to clear and 
stabilize roads and bridges.

They could have ordered FEMA to quickly expand the list of impacted 
counties to get aid flowing appropriately.

And they should certainly have done a better job managing FEMA’s 
funding: According to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, 
the agency is nearly broke after spending more than $600 million caring 
for illegal migrants nationwide.

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The bumbling White House response is incomprehensible for any 
administration — but particularly so this close to a presidential election.

Harris was already struggling to respond to voters’ questions over her 
agenda, her priorities and her managerial abilities.

Her failure to so much as show up when Americans faced such a crisis has 
literally taken our breath away.

Her apparent indifference underscores voters’ suspicion that Harris is 
not on top of our country’s domestic concerns —  and may well damage her 
chances in these battleground states.

Bush was excoriated for appearing heartless toward the people of New 
Orleans after his 2005 flyby of the Hurricane Katrina disaster zone. 
Harris is running the very real risk of being seen in the same light.

Given that well-known history, the level of political mismanagement on 
the part of this administration and Harris’ campaign is shocking.

It reinforces the belief that the Biden-Harris administration as a whole 
is both inept and insensitive.

Why should voters think a President Harris would be any less asleep at 
the wheel than the administration in which she now serves?

And how can Americans trust her to lead the country for the next four 
years when she has proven time and again to be unresponsive to our needs?

You’d think that two key swing states with a total of 32 electoral votes 
would receive overwhelming resources and attention from the party in 
power after a catastrophe of this magnitude.

Instead, the Biden-Harris administration’s incompetence, indifference 
and weakness on a host of issues, both domestic and foreign, could 
presage the Democrats’ defeat.


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