White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stomped her feet and left a briefing Monday after an exchange with a reporter about whether a question about the federal response to Hurricane Helen was a “false alarm.”
Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked Jean-Pierre to explain why the Harris-Biden administration was implementing the policy. Approximately $157 million We are ready to help displaced people and refugees in Lebanon, but we need to help. ask the parliament The agency is seeking additional funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency as FEMA faces a shortfall due to the damage caused by Hurricane Helen.
A White House spokesperson responded: “We take this matter very seriously.” “We have provided more than $200 million to affected communities, but in return people want disinformation, disinformation, and this is dangerous.”
Doocy asks what available funding for Lebanon says about Biden's “values” in the absence of additional funding for FEMA, which President Biden noted in a recent letter to Congressional leaders Jean-Pierre again accused his question of “misinformation.”
“The whole premise of your question is misinformation, sir,” said Mr. Jean-Pierre.
“Excuse me?” stupid shot back.
“Yes, yes, that is false information,” the White House press secretary said three times. “I just said we have provided more than $200 million to those affected in this region.”
The 81-year-old president warned House and Senate leaders on Friday that “without additional funding, FEMA will need to forego long-term recovery efforts in favor of meeting immediate needs.” did.
“Congress should provide additional resources to FEMA to avoid forcing such unnecessary tradeoffs,” Biden added, adding that “Congress should provide additional resources to FEMA to avoid forcing such unnecessary tradeoffs” In addition to the region, “many other communities are also in urgent need of disaster relief.” ”
Doocy asked if Jean-Pierre agreed that Biden's letter was not actually “misinformation.”
“No, the way you ask the question is misinformed,” she replied. “We have funds that we are allocating to affected areas, and we also have funds to help those who really need it.”
“You can't call a question you don't like 'misinformation,'” the Fox News reporter argued. “That's so unfair.”
Jean-Pierre insisted that despite Biden's letter to Congress, the administration “has the funds to assist survivors of Hurricane Helen and Hurricane Milton.”
She argued that the need for additional funding stems from the uncertainty of “how bad” Hurricane Milton, a Category 5 storm in the Gulf of Mexico, will be.
“That's exactly what I just asked, and you said it's misinformation,” Doocy said.
“Congress needs to come back and do its job and provide additional aid and additional funding to the disaster relief fund,” Jean-Pierre said. “That's what Congress needs to do, and that's what we're going to continue to push for.”
“You may not want it, but that's okay. That's what this president wants, and that's what the vice president wants,” she added, slamming her notebook shut. He ran out of the conference room.
