{"id":2015158,"date":"2023-08-29T07:23:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T11:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-ramps-up-pressure-on-biden-over-maui-wildfire-response\/"},"modified":"2023-08-29T07:24:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T11:24:45","slug":"mccarthy-ramps-up-pressure-on-biden-over-maui-wildfire-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-ramps-up-pressure-on-biden-over-maui-wildfire-response\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy intensifies pressure on Biden regarding Maui wildfire response."},"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\">18<\/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%2Fmccarthy-ramps-up-pressure-on-biden-over-maui-wildfire-response%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=2015158&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>The White\u200c House&#8217;s\u2063 attempts to move past President Joe Biden&#8217;s response\u200d to \u200bthe Maui wildfires are running into a roadblock in the form of House Speaker Kevin\u200b McCarthy (R-CA).<\/h2>\n<p>The president&#8217;s decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-outlets-ignore-biden-again-ditching-d-c-for-delaware-amid-afghanistan-crisis\/\" title=\"Media Outlets Ignore Biden Again Ditching D.C. For Delaware Amid Afghanistan Crisis\">vacation amid<\/a> the destruction,\u200d which has\u200d claimed the lives of 115 people, with hundreds more unaccounted for, led to GOP\u200d criticism that Biden had been derelict in addressing the\u200c crisis. Those criticisms were amplified when he \u200cappeared to respond \u200c&#8221;no comment&#8221; to a reporter&#8217;s question about the death toll.<\/p>\n<h3>DOUG \u2064BURGUM HITS BIDEN ON &#8216;INFLATION CREATION ACT&#8217;: &#8216;IT&#8217;S WRONG ON\u2062 EVERY FRONT&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p>Biden attempted to put the issue to rest by traveling to \u2062Hawaii last\u2064 week, 13 days after the wildfires began. His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-ramps-up-pressure-on-biden-over-maui-wildfire-response\/\" title=\"McCarthy intensifies pressure on Biden regarding Maui wildfire response.\">deputy press secretary argued<\/a> a \u200bfew days later that the president\u2063 could not hear the reporter&#8217;s shouted \u2064question.<\/p>\n<p>But McCarthy is determined to keep the Biden administration&#8217;s handling in the \u2063spotlight. He floated the possibility of \u2064a congressional investigation \u2063into the disaster response and plans to visit the island himself, a trip that could come as soon as this week.<\/p>\n<p>The moves are not entirely surprising. House Republicans have flexed their majority power by investigating the Biden\u2064 administration on\u200c multiple fronts, from the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan to the\u200d influx of immigrants at the southern border. The president himself is the subject \u200bof an investigation \u2062into alleged corruption that appears headed for an impeachment inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>No formal investigation on the wildfires has been announced, but McCarthy told reporters\u2064 he is contemplating one for sometime after the House returns from recess in September.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019m very concerned about the response,\u201d McCarthy\u2063 said last week while touring a manufacturing plant in New York. \u201cHow could you lose that many Americans in today\u2019s age? I\u2019m going to be working with committees to investigate what went on so this \u2062never happens again.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Biden\u2062 ordered\u2063 &#8220;all available Federal assets&#8221; to assist first responders one\u200c day after the blaze\u200d began on Aug. 8, aid \u2062that included \u2064agency and military support to response and rescue \u2063efforts.<\/p>\n<p>He issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ohio-train-derailment-vance-says-east-palestine-still-waiting-for-bidens-response\/\" title=\"Ohio train derailment: East Palestine awaits Biden's reply, Vance says.\">major \u2063disaster declaration<\/a> on Aug. 10 following an \u200durgent plea by Hawaii lawmakers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We\u2019re working as quickly\u2062 as possible to\u200c fight\u200c these fires and \u200cevacuate residents \u2062and\u200d tourists. In the meantime, our prayers are with the people of Hawaii,&#8221; Biden said at a\u2063 White\u2062 House event in Salt Lake City. &#8220;But not just our prayers: Every asset we \u2063have will be available to them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Part \u2063of that response was a one-time check of $700 to support victims&#8217;\u200d &#8220;immediate \u200cneeds,&#8221; but Republicans \u200bframed the aid, \u2063just one element of federal assistance, as a woefully insufficient &#8220;slap in the face.&#8221; \u2063His decision\u200d to proceed with\u200d planned\u200c vacations\u200d in Rehoboth Beach\u200c and then Lake \u2064Tahoe provided Republicans with a \u200buseful split-screen.<\/p>\n<p>The wildfires, exacerbated by a combination of strong winds and drought, destroyed more than a thousand homes as first responders struggled to contain them.<\/p>\n<p>Biden,\u2064 whom the White House\u2062 says waited\u2062 to visit to avoid interfering\u2064 in the\u2062 search and rescue operation, ultimately paused his \u2062Lake Tahoe vacation\u2063 to \u200dsurvey the damage and speak with first responders in an Aug.\u2063 21 trip attended by first\u2063 lady \u200bJill Biden.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cJill and I are here to grieve\u2063 with you\u200d but also\u200b want you to\u200b know the entire country is here\u2064 for you,\u201d he said at a community center in Lahaina, \u2063a\u2064 historic town wiped out\u2064 by the wildfires.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But he stoked further criticism for comparing the\u2064 devastation to his family&#8217;s\u2064 experience with a 2004 \u2063kitchen fire that he\u200b has in \u2062the past exaggerated.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I almost lost my\u200c wife, my \u201867 Corvette, and\u200d my\u200d cat,&#8221; he joked before invoking the loss \u200bof his first wife and daughter in a 1972 car crash.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Only \u200cthing \u2062worse than losing someone is not [being] sure whether you\u2019ve\u200d lost someone,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The trip by \u2063McCarthy, who will soon travel to the Pacific for a G7 speaker&#8217;s conference, gives Republicans another \u2064opportunity to generate a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gina-carano-wins-again-hits-number-one-spot-on-imdbs-star-rating\/\" title=\"Gina Carano Wins Again, Hits Number One Spot on IMDB\u2019s \u2018Star Rating\u2019\">news cycle<\/a> on Biden&#8217;s disaster response.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON\u200c EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There are so many mistakes that have happened\u2062 that could have protected American lives. There are\u200c so many things that could have\u200b happened that could have [prevented] this fire,&#8221; McCarthy told Fox News&#8217;s \u200cMaria\u200d Bartiromo\u200c on Sunday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;So, I will be going to Hawaii\u200d to look at Maui \u200dand see ways that we\u200b can improve it \u2014 \u2064in the world \u2064today,&#8221; he added, &#8220;this has got to stop.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House faces opposition from House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as it tries to move on from President Biden&#8217;s handling of the Maui wildfires. GOP criticism arose due to the president&#8217;s vacation during the devastation, resulting in 115 deaths and many still missing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2015159,"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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2015158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/2015158","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2015159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}