{"id":2008726,"date":"2023-08-22T21:29:12","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T01:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fema-officials-stay-at-1000-per-night-luxury-maui-hotels-as-feds-face-criticism-for-response-to-fires-report\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T21:31:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T01:31:09","slug":"fema-officials-stay-at-1000-per-night-luxury-maui-hotels-as-feds-face-criticism-for-response-to-fires-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fema-officials-stay-at-1000-per-night-luxury-maui-hotels-as-feds-face-criticism-for-response-to-fires-report\/","title":{"rendered":"FEMA officials lodge at lavish Maui hotels costing $1,000 per night amid criticism over fire response: Report."},"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 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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--><h2>FEMA Officials Stay at $1,000 Per Night Luxury Maui Hotels as Feds Face Criticism for Response\u200d to Fires: Report<\/h2>\n<p>As residents of Maui endure among the charred ashes of their lives and mourn those dead and missing, Federal Emergency Management Agency officials sent to the island are living in luxury far from the scenes of devastation.<\/p>\n<p>Wildfires ravaged Maui this month, leading to\u200b at least 115 deaths, with more than 800 people listed as missing and thousands \u2063left homeless.<\/p>\n<p>FEMA officials are staying at\u200b three five-star hotels, the Fairmont Kea Lani, Four Seasons, and the Grand Wailea Astoria, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12430203\/FEMA-officials-staying-luxury-Maui-hotels.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Federal government rates\u2063 for those resorts start at $1,000 a night, the\u2063 Mail wrote, citing what it said were company sources.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">FEMA officials splashing taxpayer \u2063cash on $1,000-a-night Maui hotels <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EjHcr9COwH\">https:\/\/t.co\/EjHcr9COwH<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MailOnline?\">@MailOnline<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Too-Much-Information (@TooMuchInform14) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TooMuchInform14\/status\/1694115383068995879?\">August 22, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Big Spending and \u200bPresidential Promises<\/h3>\n<p>The big spending \u200bcomes as President <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\/status\/1691109605278179328?%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1691109605278179328%7Ctwgr%5Eac5b8cf2df5d2f7a16a96aad738686a8aeeb2430%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.westernjournal.com%2Fbiden-offers-maui-fire-survivors-one-time-pittance-day-200-million-announced-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Biden<\/a> has announced on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\/status\/1691109605278179328?%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1691109605278179328%7Ctwgr%5Eac5b8cf2df5d2f7a16a96aad738686a8aeeb2430%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.westernjournal.com%2Fbiden-offers-maui-fire-survivors-one-time-pittance-day-200-million-announced-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> that Maui families impacted by the fire can receive \u201ca \u200bone-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 unimaginably difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Mail\u2064 reported that\u200d FEMA officials are also based at the four-star Marriott Wailea \u200dBeach Resort, starting at $531\u2063 per night, citing what it \u200bcalled \u200da company insider as its source.<\/p>\n<p>Although the \u200bdamage \u2063FEMA\u200b is dealing \u200cwith took place in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/maui-fire-survivor-puts-biden-blast-kind-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lahaina<\/a> on the northwest corner of \u200dthe island, FEMA\u2019s staff are staying in Wailea, about 45 minutes away on the southern edge of the island.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">FEMA officials are spending $1K\/night on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dallas-democrats-blasted-for-soliciting-care-packages-for-tx-dems-who-fled-state-pathetic\/\" title=\"Dallas Democrats Blasted For Soliciting Care Packages For TX Dems Who Fled State: \u2018Pathetic\u2019\">luxury hotel rooms<\/a> in Maui, compared to the pathetic $700\/household the dictator on \u2064permanent vacation, Biden, has allotted\u200c these poor ppl to try and\u2064 survive!!!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kerri Henson (@kh4au) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kh4au\/status\/1694109450569711912?\">August 22,\u200d 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Criticism and Outrage<\/h3>\n<p>The Mail quoted a source \u2064it\u200d named as Kaleo, a\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-union-blunder-reveals-the-truth-behind-big-labor\/\" title=\"Biden Union Blunder Reveals The Truth Behind Big Labor\">local government employee<\/a>,\u2064 who called the lavish digs for FEMA workers \u201cselfish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShouldn\u2019t they stay closer to the site, instead of staying across on\u200b the other side of\u200c the\u2062 island?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Mail\u2064 said it asked FEMA for comment on the\u2062 resorts it is using but received no reply.<\/p>\n<p>Revelations \u200bof FEMA\u2019s big spending\u200b came in the aftermath of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-kicks-off-maui-trip-making-cracking-jokes-people-died\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden\u2019s visit<\/a> \u200d to the island, in which he spoke of\u2064 an accident\u2063 that damaged\u200c his house.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to compare \u200ddifficulties, but we have a \u2064little sense, \u2063Jill and I, of what it was like to lose a home,\u201d\u2063 Biden said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/maui-residents-biden-tone-deaf-multi-million-dollar-visit-outrageous\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYears ago now, 15 years, I was in \u200dWashington doing \u2018Meet\u200c the Press\u2019 \u2026 lightning struck at home on a little lake outside the home, not a lake, a big pond. It\u200b hit the \u2064wire and came up underneath\u200c our\u200c home into the \u2026 air condition ducts. To make a \u200dlong story\u200d short, I almost lost my wife, my \u201967 Corvette and \u200dmy cat,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Biden appears to briefly fall asleep during a ceremony in Maui honoring the hundreds of people who died.<\/p>\n<p>Here is how Biden\u2019s trip to Maui went:<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Upon arriving, Biden joked about how hot the ground was.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Biden later brought up his son Beau Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 He also told a debunked\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DcbuwZjGgh\">pic.twitter.com\/DcbuwZjGgh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg)\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CollinRugg\/status\/1693971660083532250?\">August 22, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Community Outrage and Disappointment<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI \u2064think \u2064it was\u2064 a little bit tone-deaf,\u201d Maui resident\u200d Amanda Cassidy said on \u2064\u201cFox &#038; Friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, I \u2063can understand how he was \u200dtrying to meet us somewhere and say, \u2018I understand,\u2019 but unfortunately that is nothing that compares to what happened to our community, our beautiful little town and the \u200dfamilies of children \u200bthat \u2063were lost and disabled and the elderly. I mean, a car and your kitchen is kind of just a little sad to hear,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think\u200b people really want to see you show up for\u200c us and provide an eighth of what you\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/rep-luna-shreds-bidens-no-comment-deadly-hawaii-fires-shelled-200m-ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">giving to Ukraine<\/a>. It\u2019s outrageous. Lahaina is so hurt right now and that was tone-deaf,\u201d Cassidy\u2063 said.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow Maui resident Etan Krupnick, called Biden\u2019s visit a \u201cmultimillion-dollar photo op.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could\u2019ve used that money directly to Lahaina, to house more of the families for a longer stay because the rebuild of their homes isn\u2019t going to take three months \u2026 it\u2019s going \u2064to be about at \u2064least six months\u200d just to clean up the\u200b area, and we\u2019re still looking for \u2062family and friends that are still lost, and we\u2019re going to mourn them. And it\u2019s just it\u2019s a huge mess right now,\u201d \u2063Krupnick \u2064said.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fema-officials-stay-1000-per-night-luxury-maui-hotels-feds-face-criticism-response-fires-report\/\">FEMA Officials\u200c Stay at $1,000 Per Night Luxury Maui Hotels as Feds Face Criticism for Response\u200d to Fires: Report<\/a> appeared first \u2064on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Maui residents suffer amidst the ruins of their lives, grieving for the deceased and missing, Federal Emergency Management Agency officials are comfortably stationed far from the devastated areas. 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