{"id":2014922,"date":"2023-08-28T23:04:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T03:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maui-wildfire-survivor-says-biden-admin-is-not-helping-were-not-being-treated-like-were-us-citizens\/"},"modified":"2023-08-28T23:05:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T03:05:49","slug":"maui-wildfire-survivor-says-biden-admin-is-not-helping-were-not-being-treated-like-were-us-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maui-wildfire-survivor-says-biden-admin-is-not-helping-were-not-being-treated-like-were-us-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Maui wildfire survivor claims Biden administration neglects US citizens in need."},"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\">22<\/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%2Fmaui-wildfire-survivor-says-biden-admin-is-not-helping-were-not-being-treated-like-were-us-citizens%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=2014922&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><h2>Maui \u2063Wildfire Survivor Calls Out President Biden\u2064 for Lack of Support<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Maui wildfire survivor Mike\u200d Cicchino recently\u200c spoke out about the lack of assistance from the government as residents try to rebuild \u2064their\u2062 lives. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/us-news\/west\/hawaii-wildfires\/maui-resident-were-not-being-treated-like-were-us-citizens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent interview<\/a>, Cicchino expressed \u2062his frustration, stating that Lahaina residents\u2064 like himself were &#8220;not being treated like&#8221; American citizens.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Cicchino shared his harrowing experience with &#8220;NewsNation Prime&#8221;\u200d host Natasha Zouves. He \u200brecounted the terrifying \u200bmoments when he and his\u200d wife had \u200dto flee into the ocean to escape the flames engulfing their historic village. For three hours, they struggled to stay \u200bafloat, fearing for \u200ctheir lives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Being on fire, not knowing where land is, at points,\u2064 the currents pulling us out where we can&#8217;t touch\u200d the ground,&#8221; Cicchino \u2064recalled. \u2064&#8221;At\u200b times, I remember just telling her to make \u2062sure that she saves herself. &#8216;Don&#8217;t worry. If I start drowning out here, you save yourself.&#8217; It&#8217;s the most terrifying experience of our \u2063life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Upon returning to\u200c shore, Cicchino and his wife discovered \u200bthat their home\u2064 and business had been destroyed. However, the assistance offered \u200bby the federal government so far \u200chas been a \u200dmeager one-time payment of $700 per \u200chousehold, which\u200c Cicchino has yet to receive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are the\u200d 50<sup>th<\/sup> state here, and we&#8217;re not being treated like \u2063we&#8217;re U.S.\u2063 citizens. We feel like\u200d we just got out of a fight for our life. Now, we&#8217;re\u200c back \u2063in another fight for\u200b our\u2062 life to find a home,\u2064 to find a place to\u200d rest our head at night,&#8221; he expressed. \u200b&#8221;We&#8217;re not getting any \u2062help \u200dfrom the\u200d federal government so\u200d far.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We never received the $700, which I mean\u2063 wouldn&#8217;t \u2064go very far here in Hawaii. We&#8217;re mostly getting help \u2062from\u200d private organizations\u2064 and nonprofits,&#8221; Cicchino revealed. \u200c&#8221;I can&#8217;t \u2062speak for everybody, but we feel like we&#8217;re not getting any help out here, at least from the \u200dfederal government. They are helping, from what I understand, \u2063down \u2063on the ground to look for bodies, to clear out rubble, those types \u2064of things. \u2062But as far as\u200c the people that \u200cwere displaced, financially they&#8217;ve been no help.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>President Biden has\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maui-wildfire-survivor-says-biden-admin-is-not-helping-were-not-being-treated-like-were-us-citizens\/\" title=\"Maui wildfire survivor claims Biden administration neglects US citizens in need.\">faced \u200bwidespread criticism<\/a> for \u200chis handling of\u200b the deadly fires, which have claimed 115 lives and left hundreds missing. While he was initially\u200c praised for declaring \u200ca state of emergency, he received backlash for offering &#8220;no\u2064 comment&#8221; on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-to-show-lockdowns-are-killing-more-people-than-the-virus\/\" title=\"How To Show Lockdowns Are Killing More People Than The Virus\">rising death toll<\/a> and for delaying\u2063 his visit \u2062to the devastated island for nearly two\u2062 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s eventual trip to survey the \u200cdamage, \u200bwhich was a brief day trip \u200csandwiched between vacation \u200ddays\u200c in \u200bLake Tahoe, only\u2064 added to the controversy. \u200bDuring his visit, he made an ill-advised comparison\u200c between the massive wildfire and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-claims-he-lost-an-awful-lot-in-house-fire-jill-biden-reported-the-small-kitchen-fire-that-was-doused-in-20-minutes\/\" title=\"Biden Claims He \u2018Lost An Awful Lot\u2019 In House Fire. Jill Biden Reported The Small Kitchen Fire That Was Doused In 20 Minutes\">small kitchen fire<\/a>\u2063 that occurred in his\u2064 Delaware home years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maui wildfire survivor Mike Cicchino criticized President Biden and his administration, stating that Lahaina residents, including himself, were not receiving adequate support as they struggled to rebuild their lives. Speaking to &#8220;NewsNation Prime&#8221; host Natasha Zouves, Cicchino expressed his disappointment with the lack of assistance from the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":2014923,"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-2014922","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\/2014922","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\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2014923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}