{"id":1660741,"date":"2022-09-27T15:19:54","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T19:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1660741"},"modified":"2022-09-27T15:20:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T19:20:13","slug":"white-house-dodges-on-biden-not-talking-to-desantis-ahead-of-hurricane-ian-landfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-dodges-on-biden-not-talking-to-desantis-ahead-of-hurricane-ian-landfall\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Dodges on Biden Not Talking to DeSantis Ahead of Hurricane Ian Landfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-dodges-on-biden-not-talking-to-desantis-ahead-of-hurricane-ian-landfall%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1660741&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The White House dodged questions on whether President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> has spoken with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ahead of Hurricane Ian\u2019s impending landfall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the past, President Biden has made calls to [Republican] governors in situations like natural disasters, [such as] Kay Ivey in Alabama, Asa Hutchinson in Arkansas or the governor in Texas,\u201d a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1321722195030322\">reporter asked FEMA<\/a> chief Deanne Criswell on Tuesday who was standing alongside White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. \u201cCan you articulate how these determinations are made and why it hasn\u2019t been made in this case to have the president call the governor?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response, Criswell did not say whether Biden, a Democrat, has spoken with DeSantis, a Republican ahead of Ian\u2019s landfall. The FEMA head said that she has spoken with DeSantis and her team is in contact constantly with the governor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president is very focused on making sure the federal family has the right resources to support this,\u201d Criswell told reporters. \u201cThat is why I contacted the governor right away, and we have a team of my senior leadership embedded with the governor to make sure that we\u2019re supporting that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Criswell said the \u201cfocus today\u201d will be \u201cmaking sure that we have the right measures in place to support the lifesaving activities that need to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgain, we have a strong team that\u2019s in place supporting the governor right now,\u201d Criswell also said in response to another question about whether Biden has spoken to DeSantis.<\/p>\n<p> Talking to Mayors <\/p>\n<p>During another event Tuesday, Biden told reporters that he spoke with the mayors of Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Clearwater, to contact him directly for aid. Those cities are in the path of Hurricane Ian.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForecast can change, but for now the experts say this could be a very severe hurricane, life-threatening and a devastating impact,\u201d Biden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House dodged questions on whether President Joe Biden has spoken with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ahead of Hurricane Ian\u2019s impending landfall. \u201cIn the past, President Biden has made calls to [Republican] governors in situations like natural disasters, [such as] Kay Ivey in Alabama, Asa Hutchinson in Arkansas or the governor in Texas,\u201d a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1660741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1660741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1660741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1660741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1660741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}