{"id":2003886,"date":"2023-08-17T15:30:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T19:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-700-checks-to-hawaii-fire-victims-wont-even-cover-their-share-of-ukraine-bill\/"},"modified":"2023-08-17T15:32:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T19:32:26","slug":"bidens-700-checks-to-hawaii-fire-victims-wont-even-cover-their-share-of-ukraine-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-700-checks-to-hawaii-fire-victims-wont-even-cover-their-share-of-ukraine-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s $700 aid for Hawaii fire victims falls short of their Ukraine bill contribution."},"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%2Fbidens-700-checks-to-hawaii-fire-victims-wont-even-cover-their-share-of-ukraine-bill%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=2003886&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--><div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n        <!-- Image goes here --><br \/>\n      <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>President Joe\u200b Biden<\/strong> announced his administration would send\u2064 relief payments to \u200dthe tune of $700 per household to Hawaiians whose homes, communities,\u2062 and \u2064loved ones were tragically lost in a sudden\u200d blaze last \u2064week that devastated the historic town of \u2063Lahaina on the island of Maui. Those checks, \u2063however, won\u2019t even cover each\u200b household\u2019s portion of the\u2064 $113 billion in aid \u2063packages the United States has billed taxpayers for the\u200c war in Ukraine, which averages almost $900 per\u200d household.<\/p>\n<p>After\u200c the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-700-checks-to-hawaii-fire-victims-wont-even-cover-their-share-of-ukraine-bill\/\" title=\"Biden's 0 aid for Hawaii fire victims falls short of their Ukraine bill contribution.\">cantankerous president \u2063told reporters<\/a> he\u200c had &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/08\/14\/empathizer-in-chief-biden-offers-hawaiians-devastated-by-wildfire-no-comment-from-his-beach-chair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">no comment<\/a>&#8221; for the Maui victims as he lounged at the beach near his Delaware vacation home, the Biden administration \u200dscrambled to do damage control with more updates about help for Maui on Monday. The staffer who runs Biden\u2019s Twitter account \u2014 who also <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230815192446\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/PressSec\/status\/1691526420215001091\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">apparently \u2063runs that of Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre<\/a> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\/status\/1691109605278179328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tweeted<\/a> \u2062 that the government will generously be doling out a \u201cone-time $700 payment per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-offers-maui-fire-survivors-one-time-pittance-on-same-day-200-million-announced-for-ukraine\/\" title=\"Biden's meager aid to Maui fire survivors coincides with 0 million for Ukraine.\">household offering relief<\/a> during an \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/foo-fighters-drummer-taylor-hawkins-dead-at-50\/\" title=\"Foo Fighters Drummer Taylor Hawkins Dead at 50\">unimaginably difficult time<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fema.gov\/fact-sheet\/critical-needs-assistance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Critical Needs Assistance<\/a>,&#8221;\u2062 which will be administered \u2062by FEMA, will be available to &#8220;applicants who were displaced\u2062 from their homes\u2063 and have \u200ccritical \u2063needs,&#8221;\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2023\/08\/15\/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administrations-response-to-the-maui-wildfires\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a> \u2062 to the White House. It\u2019s designed to \u2063be put\u200d toward water, groceries, and other\u2064 urgent sustenance. Judging by\u200d average\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khon2.com\/local-news\/hawaii-tops-list-for-most-expensive-grocery-bills\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">grocery costs<\/a> in Hawaii, $700 \u2063would last a family of four just over a week \u2014 but that\u2019s not even considering the obvious added difficulties present for survivors of the deadliest \u2064wildfire the country has\u200c experienced in a century.<\/p>\n<p>The fire\u2019s death toll has\u200b surpassed \u2063100, but with some 1,300 people still \u2064missing, responders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/weather\/2023\/08\/16\/maui-wildfires-damage-explained\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">expect<\/a> it \u2063to climb far\u2062 higher. Thousands\u2062 of buildings, mostly homes, were destroyed, and the damage costs are in the billions.<\/p>\n<p>In\u2064 the meantime, \u200dthe bill Washington policymakers are\u2063 charging American taxpayers for \u2063the \u2062war in\u2062 Ukraine has cost each household an <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/08\/10\/while-you-pinch-inflated-pennies-congress-sent-900-of-your-household-income-to-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">average of nearly $900<\/a> so\u2062 far \u2014 or\u200b more than\u2062 125 percent\u200b of what the Biden administration is \u2063now so\u200b benevolently offering back to devastated Maui families.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to the Congressional\u2063 Budget Office, the U.S. had about\u200b 127.9 million households during \u200cfiscal year\u2064 2022,\u200c which ended last September, making the estimated cost\u2064 for the approved aid to Ukraine per American household about $884,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/08\/09\/us-aid-to-ukraine-amounts-to-900-per-american-household-economist-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> The Daily Signal last week.<\/p>\n<p>Siphoning almost $900 off your income to send overseas and then insisting you be thankful when you\u2019re \u2064\u201cgifted\u201d part of\u200b that \u2062money back to rebuild your entire life only makes sense in Common Core \u200cmath. But that\u2019s \u200bthe government for\u2064 you, right?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Elle Purnell is an assistant editor\u2062 at The Federalist, and received her B.A. in government from Patrick Henry College with a\u200c minor in\u2063 journalism. Follow her work\u200b on\u2063 Twitter @_etreynolds.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div data-image data-amount=\"5\">\n<h2>Popular<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden pledged to provide $700 relief payments to Hawaiians affected by the devastating fire in Lahaina, Maui. While the amount falls short of covering the losses suffered by each household, it aims to offer some assistance to those who lost their homes, communities, and loved ones in the tragic incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1353,"featured_media":2003887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2003886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003886","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\/1353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2003887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}