{"id":2011061,"date":"2023-08-24T16:35:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T20:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-federal-response-seems-very-delayed-mccarthy-blasts-biden-administration-on-maui-fire\/"},"modified":"2023-08-24T16:35:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T20:35:52","slug":"the-federal-response-seems-very-delayed-mccarthy-blasts-biden-administration-on-maui-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-federal-response-seems-very-delayed-mccarthy-blasts-biden-administration-on-maui-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;McCarthy criticizes Biden administration for slow response to Maui fire.&#8217;"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fthe-federal-response-seems-very-delayed-mccarthy-blasts-biden-administration-on-maui-fire%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=2011061&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--><h2>House Speaker McCarthy Criticizes Biden\u2062 Administration&#8217;s Response to Maui Fire Tragedy<\/h2>\n<p>Speaking in upstate New York on Wednesday, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy\u2063 took a swipe at the Biden administration\u2019s response to the tragic fire on the island of Maui\u200b in which 115 people have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/millions-of-americans-brace-for-another-winter-storm\/\" title=\"Millions of Americans brace for another winter storm\">reported dead<\/a> and an astonishing 1,100 people <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2023\/08\/why-is-the-number-of-missing-persons-after-maui-so-high.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">still unaccounted for.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got disasters going off in\u2064 this country. We saw the devastation that has happened \u200din Maui, the need to go there,\u201d McCarthy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xbPWzcc7zXo&#038;t=180s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stated<\/a> of the fire that destroyed the historic town of Lahaina.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cBut I\u2019m very concerned about the response,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe still have hundreds of individuals that are missing. I think there\u2019s gonna have to be \u2063a congressional investigation in response of what happened. How could we lose that many Americans in today\u2019s age? \u201c<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the federal response seems\u2064 very delayed,\u201d he\u2064 declared. \u201cThe president\u2019s response to have no comment? That\u2019s unacceptable. So I\u2019m going to work with committees too to look at investigating what went on so that never happens \u200dagain as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>President Biden&#8217;s Disappointing Response<\/h3>\n<p>President Biden, \u200boften hailed by the Left\u200b as a decent, compassionate person, was \u2064at the beach in Delaware last Sunday when he was asked about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pope-francis-again-snubs-chinas-uighurs-in-christmas-message\/\" title=\"Pope Francis AGAIN Snubs China's Uighurs in Christmas Message\">enormous tragedy<\/a> in Maui, where the deadliest wildfire in the U.S. in the last 100 years occurred. According to Democrat Hawaii\u200b Governor Josh Green, the damage from the fires that \u200cutterly \u200cravaged the historic town of \u200cLahaina could amount \u200dto $6 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The compassionate response from the president as he was leaving\u200c the beach? <strong>\u201cNo comment.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By Wednesday, officials were only able to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/maui-wildfire-victims.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">identify<\/a> 27 of the 115\u2062 victims.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, a fire nearly reached Lahaina; Maui\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-federal-response-seems-very-delayed-mccarthy-blasts-biden-administration-on-maui-fire\/\" title=\"'McCarthy criticizes Biden administration for slow response to Maui fire.'\">top emergency management official<\/a>, Herman Andaya, who resigned last week, later told a special Maui County Council meeting held in the wake of the\u2062 fires in 2018,\u201cIt nearly, nearly reached Lahaina Town. And, had it jumped Lahainaluna Road, it would have been, I mean, it would have been devastating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lahaina resident David Jung asked after the 2018 fire why civil defense sirens were not sounded as the fire headed toward the town. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/maui-officials-warned-lahaina-wildfires-2018-critics-rcna101515\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Interviewed<\/a> after last week\u2019s fire, he stated, \u201cIt was \u2062the exact same scenario in 2018. The only difference is that \u200bwith the fire five \u2064years ago, the winds stopped at the very last minute. Call it an act of God or\u2063 luck or whatever, but they had their second chance. They had\u2063 five \u200dyears \u200dto figure this out and fix it. Instead, nothing was done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were given a bunch of lip service, and instead of preventing another\u200c fire, \u2064the focus of the meeting was \u2018Look,\u200c we\u2019re gonna give you guys money and reimburse \u200byou,\u2019\u201d\u200c he continued. \u201cAnd we were: \u2018No, no, no, no, that is not what we want. You can give us all the money in the world; we just do not want this to happen again.\u2019 \u2062But everything we told them was completely, 100% ignored.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Kevin McCarthy criticized the Biden administration&#8217;s handling of the devastating fire in Maui, where 115 deaths have been confirmed and 1,100 people remain missing. McCarthy highlighted the ongoing disasters in the country during his speech in upstate New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":2011062,"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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2011061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/2011061","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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2011061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2011062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2011061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2011061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2011061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}