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   > Again - there were, not 1 but 4 border bills - they were all voted down.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2024/10/07/opinion/helene-reveals-a-rudderles   
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   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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