{"id":2348610,"date":"2024-10-02T11:53:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T15:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-days-after-helene-not-one-of-the-biden-harris-cabinet-visited\/"},"modified":"2024-10-02T11:54:59","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T15:54:59","slug":"in-days-after-helene-not-one-of-the-biden-harris-cabinet-visited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-days-after-helene-not-one-of-the-biden-harris-cabinet-visited\/","title":{"rendered":"In Days After Helene, Not One Of The Biden-Harris Cabinet Visited"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fin-days-after-helene-not-one-of-the-biden-harris-cabinet-visited%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=2348610&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>Hurricane\u200b Helene\u2062 has resulted in over\u2064 160 deaths, \u200cwith \u200bmany individuals\u200b still unaccounted for in the affected areas\u2063 of\u200c the American South. Despite the scale of the disaster, no cabinet officials from the Biden-Harris\u2062 administration\u200c have been reported \u2063on-site or planning visits. President Biden spent the weekend at \u2062the\u200d beach \u2064in Delaware and was focused on a White House event\u2062 celebrating the\u200b U.S.\u200b Olympic \u200bteam, rather than\u2064 disaster response. Vice President \u200cKamala Harris was campaigning on the\u200c West Coast, \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-2024-hopefuls-enter-final-stretch-before-the-iowa-caucuses\/\" title=\"GOP 2024 contenders gear up for Iowa caucuses\">hosting fundraising events<\/a> instead\u2062 of addressing the crisis. Other key officials, like Transportation Secretary\u2062 Pete Buttigieg and Homeland\u2063 Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, were also absent from\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nearly-half-of-texas-wind-turbines-frozen-in-winter-storm-limiting-states-power-output\/\" title=\"Nearly Half Of Texas\u2019 Wind Turbines Frozen In Winter Storm Limiting State\u2019s Power Output\">disaster relief efforts<\/a>, with Buttigieg reportedly preparing for \u2063a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/campaign-2024-an-early-look-at-the-possible-republican-contenders\/\" title=\"Campaign 2024: An Early Look At The Possible Republican Contenders\">vice presidential debate<\/a> and Mayorkas attending an awards ceremony in California. the\u200d administration&#8217;s response \u200bto \u200dthe hurricane has drawn criticism for \u2064a lack of engagement and\u2062 visible leadership\u200d during\u2062 a time\u2063 of significant national tragedy.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The death toll for Hurricane Helene has reached more than 160 and hundreds of Americans are still unaccounted for, as massive swaths of the American South are reeling from the natural disaster. The Dossier has found that not a single Biden-Harris administration cabinet official is on the ground in disaster areas, and none have expressed an intention to visit the sites most impacted by the hurricane.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden spent Friday to Sunday at the beach in Delaware, according to his public schedule. On Monday, he was at the White House to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/olympics.com\/en\/news\/torri-huske-leads-u-s-delegation-at-white-house-celebration\">celebrate<\/a>&nbsp;the U.S. Olympic team.<\/p>\n<p>When asked what he&rsquo;s doing to help with the Helene response, Biden said he&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1840775717702738239\">&ldquo;was on the phone for two hours yesterday<\/a>&rdquo; while he was in reality just sitting on the beach in Delaware.<\/p>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/news\/politics-and-government\/5-things-to-know-from-kamala-harris-second-rally-in-las-vegas-3179738\/\">&nbsp;spent the weekend campaigning<\/a>&nbsp;and raising money on the West Coast, hosting high-dollar fundraisers and rallies in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Las Vegas.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2024\/10\/localimages\/https-253A-252F-252Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com-252Fpublic-252Fimages-252F10d6c5a7-9539-4ff6-a6f3-998b2c6387b9_1292x1170.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2024\/10\/localimages\/https-253A-252F-252Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com-252Fpublic-252Fimages-252F10d6c5a7-9539-4ff6-a6f3-998b2c6387b9_1292x1170.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a>After some blowback, her team released a &ldquo;Veep&rdquo;-like PR photo Monday on X, showcasing Harris on her plane (with unplugged headphones and blank pieces of paper in front of her), cosplaying a leader who is managing the Helene response.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, despite being the senior infrastructure guy in the cabinet, is once more nowhere to be found. His&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.transportation.gov\/mission\/meet-secretary\/schedule-us-secretary-transportation\">public schedule<\/a>&nbsp;has not been updated since mid-August. Instead of focusing on assisting Helene victims, he was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/09\/24\/walz-buttigieg-debate-prep-minneapolis-00180736\">reportedly<\/a>&nbsp;helping Tim Walz with debate prep for the vice presidential debate that occurred Tuesday evening. Instead of assisting with disaster relief, &ldquo;Mayor Pete&rdquo; was in Minnesota with Walz.<\/p>\n<p>Department of Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas, who presides over the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), was also nowhere to be found. When Helene reached American territory, he was in California,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/news\/2024\/09\/27\/us-department-homeland-security-recognizes-173-employees-secretarys-award-ceremony\">&nbsp;hosting an awards ceremony for the U.S. Secret Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of assisting with disaster relief efforts, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland was in Washington, D.C., Monday to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/search\/2\/image?family=editorial&amp;phrase=%09Deb%20Haaland&amp;sort=newest\">celebrate<\/a>&nbsp;the Olympic teams at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefencepost.com\/news\/vilsack-notes-focus-on-food-security-small-farmers-at-g7-meeting\/\">&nbsp;is in Italy meeting with the G7 nations<\/a>, discussing how to impose stringent climate change policies upon humanity.<\/p>\n<p>The Environmental Protection Agency administrator spent last week in New York City at an event called Climate Week NYC.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2024\/10\/localimages\/https-253A-252F-252Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com-252Fpublic-252Fimages-252F35228ef5-a3c3-4f4c-ae33-58d3a6102c77_2680x1600.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2024\/10\/localimages\/https-253A-252F-252Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com-252Fpublic-252Fimages-252F35228ef5-a3c3-4f4c-ae33-58d3a6102c77_2680x1600.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a>The U.S. Small Business administrator spent the weekend in Nebraska celebrating Native American tribes.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2024\/10\/localimages\/https-253A-252F-252Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com-252Fpublic-252Fimages-252F0c813fd6-9d2e-48e4-92d7-90d33aa8fb0f_2676x1588.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2024\/10\/localimages\/https-253A-252F-252Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com-252Fpublic-252Fimages-252F0c813fd6-9d2e-48e4-92d7-90d33aa8fb0f_2676x1588.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a>The FEMA director is the only mildly senior-level Biden-Harris official on the ground in the disaster areas. However, she is largely doing photo-ops with state governors and checking boxes.<\/p>\n<p>This is the reality of an administration entirely controlled by the D.C. bureaucracy. With major swaths of the country in desperate need of federal resources, there is nobody to be held accountable for deploying assets to areas of need.<\/p>\n<p>The cognitively-impaired president is at the beach. The vice president couldn&rsquo;t care less. And the rest of their cabinet is busy fulfilling other &ldquo;duties.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><em>This article is republished, with permission, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dossier.today\/p\/the-entire-biden-harris-cabinet-is\">from a version on the author&rsquo;s Substack<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Jordan Schachtel is an independent journalist and the publisher of The Dossier on Substack.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Helene&#8217;s death toll exceeds 160, with many missing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1553,"featured_media":2348611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/54034352242_82b88e73d2_o.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[22792,4955,42159,41852],"class_list":["post-2348610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-biden-harris","tag-cabinet","tag-disaster-response","tag-helene"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/54034352242_82b88e73d2_o.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348610","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\/1553"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2348610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2348611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2348610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2348610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2348610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}