U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, announced Temporary air restrictions were put in place on Wednesday “in the vicinity of Hurricane Helen relief and recovery efforts.”
“Our goal is to ensure that funding is not a barrier to people quickly getting the relief they need and deserve,” Buttigieg said.
“This is a biblical level of devastation. What we're seeing there is apocalyptic.”
“There are also some safety issues that have come up,” he continued. “For example, temporary flight restrictions to clear airspace for flight or drone activity that may involve emergency responders to enable them to accomplish their missions.”
The Department of Transportation posted a video of Buttigieg's comments, saying, “Drone operators, please do not fly your drone near or around Hurricane Helen rescue and recovery efforts. This will affect search and rescue operations,” he added.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas argued at a press conference Wednesday that the federal government lacks the funds to fully respond to such disasters, Blaze News previously reported.
“We're meeting immediate needs with the funds we have, and we're expecting another hurricane. We don't have the funds,” Mayorkas said.
America First Legal reported that the Biden-Harris administration's Federal Emergency Management Agency has funneled a significant portion of its funds to illegal immigrants.
“Biden-Harris FEMA has spent more than $1 billion in funding for illegal aliens,” the AFL said. said.
Many people have expressed dissatisfaction and dissatisfaction with the federal government's disaster relief response to Americans living in areas affected by Hurricane Helen.
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp (Republican) burnt The government was criticized for not making strenuous efforts to help Americans, especially those living in rural areas.
Kemp said. WRDW“When the state of emergency was first declared, there were only 11 counties in it. There were up to 90 counties with such devastation, which made a lot of people, including myself, angry.”
“So we called the White House. We talked to the president's chief of staff, the FEMA administrator, and said, 'Look, you're sending a signal that you're not paying attention to some of these rural areas. ’” he continued. .
At least 200 people were confirmed dead.
“It was a major storm. We're responding across the state. We had record flooding in metro Atlanta. We also had landslides. People under lakes and ponds in the northeastern part of the state. We had to evacuate. We've been dealing with it,” Kemp told the news outlet.
Tim Kennedy, co-founder of Save Our Allies, recently said: fox business that FEMA was interfering with his team's rescue efforts.
“Where is the federal government's response and plan?” Kennedy asked.
Asked if FEMA was on the ground, he said: “So they are there. They are in the way. They are directly interfering with our mission and our ability to carry out our operations. “Yes,” he answered.
President Kennedy explained that he tried to get some people to stay in a hotel earlier this week, but was unable to do so because federal employees had booked all the rooms.
“This is a biblical level of devastation. This is apocalyptic and what we are seeing out there,” he added.
On Thursday, Blaze News' Julio Rosas joined Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) in Swannanoa, North Carolina. Rosas noted that groups of veterans and local residents have banded together to deliver relief supplies using civilian helicopters, UTVs and ATVs to provide relief to those in need.
“When asked about the federal government's response, one man said: 'What's the response?' Rosas posted on X.
Asked for his impressions of the federal government's response to the disaster, Mills told Rosas, “It's clear that FEMA keeps dropping the ball.”
Mills explained that FEMA was previously focused on providing disaster relief, but has since been adapted to also deal with the large-scale illegal immigration crisis.
“They're spending over $900 million on immigrant resettlement, which is way beyond their true scope,” Mills said.
He said the federal government had adopted “America's final agenda that we must change” and praised Americans for coming together to help one another.
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