WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden was heading to Hawaii on Monday to view the widespread damage from the recent Maui wildfires, meet with survivors and ...
Search and recovery team members check charred buildings and cars in the aftermath of the Maui wildfires in Lahaina, Hawaii, on August 18, 2023. AFPPIX: President Joe Biden was heading to Hawaii on Monday to view the widespread damage from the recent Maui wildfires, meet with survivors and fend off political criticism that his government was too slow to respond to the disaster.
“But he’s also going to be able to talk with people and hear their stories and provide a sense of hope and assurance that the federal government is going to be with them,“ Criswell said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” But some critics, including disgruntled survivors in Hawaii and some Republicans hoping to face Biden in next year's presidential election, say federal aid has been inadequate and poorly organized.
Maui residents say the process of recovering lost loved ones -- and identifying bodies -- has been agonizingly slow. Criswell acknowledged that the process could be frustratingly slow, but said the federal government had sent experts from the FBI, the Defense Department and the Department of Health and Human Services to help with the slow and painstaking identification process.
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