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House GOP doesn't want to talk about FEMA funding cuts and voting to shut down the country. But now they want accountability on the weather.
7:44 PM · Oct 5, 2024
Some North Carolina GOP representatives have praised the federal response.
Oct. 5, 2024, 4:10 PM EDT
By Laura Strickler
The chairman of a House Homeland Security subcommittee is asking the Federal Emergency Management Agency to detail what it did to prepare for Hurricane Helene after it became clear there would be catastrophic flooding.
Helene made landfall in Big Bend, Florida, on Sept. 26, causing flooding that devastated North Carolina, Tennessee and other Southern states and claimed more than 200 lives.
In a letter sent Saturday, Rep. Anthony DEsposito, chairman of the House Emergency Management and Technology Subcommittee, asked FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell for information regarding FEMAs advanced forecasting models, its pre-positioning of resources, and its coordination with federal, state, and local partners in response.
A spokesperson for FEMA confirmed to NBC News that the agency received the letter and will work with Congress on Hurricane Helene efforts.
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They'll politicize anything.
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(2,674 posts)Lovie777
(15,200 posts)enough.
BOSSHOG
(40,232 posts)How great a job the agency would have done under conservative leadership. Heckuva a job Brownie.
Isnt it a hoot hearing a conservative demanding accountability from anyone.
Republicans in congress have their marching orders. Lie about Dems every day or risk being airlifted to Mr Putins Gulag.
bigtree
(90,276 posts)...mainly spread by the outrage media as it sets hair on fire and covers up actual important things in it's ashes and smoke.
Raven123
(6,152 posts)Just like the GOP says we shouldnt talk about guns when there is a mss shooting.
Freethinker65
(11,160 posts)Let them do their jobs. There is possibly another hurricane forming. Plenty of time for an audit.
I was home hundreds of miles away in Illinois and I saw and heard warnings about potential catastrophic flooding in Appalachia several days before the storm made landfall.
I also took a long stretch of the Blue Ridge Parkway last year along with many meandering side and cross roads into the mountains. That area was extremely beautiful, but also sparsely populated. Aid is getting to those that live there as fast as possible. I heard they are using mules to travel otherwise impassable roads and helicopters.