The $95 million to rebuild Maui is less than one-tenth of one percent of the $135 billion that he is seeking to spend on Ukraine.
President Joe Biden is asking Congress to approve $24 billion more in aid for Ukraine, which wouldIn contrast, BidenWednesday that he would send $95 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to aid in rebuilding Maui after the nation’s deadliest fire in over a century, which has claimed more than 115 lives, with hundreds still unaccounted for.
The announcement came after Biden offered Maui households affected by the fire a one-time payment of $700 each — less than the $900 each household spends on the Ukraine war, according to aA Maui resident who is leading grassroots relief efforts on the ground told Breitbart News that the $700 amount was “laughable.”“That’s laughable,” said Dale Hermo-Fernandez in a phone interview from Maui. “I mean, that’s laughable.
At least 2,207 structures in Lahaina were damaged or destroyed in the fires — 86 percent being homes, and nine percent of that commercial.
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