President Joe Biden ordered “500 extra active-duty troops” to go to North Carolina to help with the continued Hurricane Helene aid efforts.
The White Home issued a press launch on Sunday saying that “in response” to a request for “extra help” from Gov. Roy Cooper (D-NC), Biden had ordered extra active-duty troops to the state. This comes days after Biden ordered “as much as 1,00 active-duty” troops to help in “supply of meals, water and different important support” to individuals who have been affected by the hurricane.
Within the press launch, the White Home famous there have been now 1,500 troops aiding with hurricane aid efforts, together with greater than 6,000 Nationwide Guard troops and “greater than 7,000 Federal personnel.”
“Right this moment, in response to North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper’s request for extra help, President Biden ordered that one other 500 active-duty troops transfer into Western North Carolina,” the White Home mentioned within the press launch. “With a complete of 1,500 troops now supplementing sturdy on-the-ground effort — together with greater than 6,100 Nationwide Guardsmen and greater than 7,000 Federal personnel — the Biden-Harris administration is mobilizing all related assets to help households as they start their highway to rebuilding.”
The White Home added that the Biden-Harris administration had “already helped 1000’s of Hurricane Helene survivors jumpstart their recoveries with greater than $137 million in Federal help,” including that the administration had been in touch with “practically 450 state, metropolis, and county officers” in states that had been affected by the hurricane.
On Wednesday, Biden acquired an “aerial tour” of South Carolina and western North Carolina to watch the injury from the hurricane, whereas Vice President Kamala Harris visited Georgia, CBS Information reported.
Within the press launch, the White Home touted how Biden and Harris had “traveled all through the Southeast” and had met with individuals in “impacted communities”:
President Biden and Vice President Harris have traveled all through the Southeast this week to fulfill with impacted communities and, throughout their travels, have reaffirmed that the Administration might be with impacted communities each step of the way in which, irrespective of how lengthy it takes, to make sure they’ve the help and assets they should get well and rebuild. Whereas there’s a lengthy approach to go on the highway to full restoration and rebuilding, Republican and Democratic leaders from throughout the nation have praised the Administration’s well-coordinated response and surge of assets within the aftermath of Helene’s landfall — together with South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, and Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer.
The extra troops to North Carolina come as residents within the state who’ve been affected by the hurricane have criticized the response from the federal authorities and have claimed that there was an absence of a presence of the Federal Emergency Administration Company (FEMA).
One Asheville resident defined throughout an interview with Fox Information host Jesse Watters that the Biden-Harris administration had taken “too lengthy” to reply and added that it had taken “5 days for Biden” to see the world.
“It’s too late,” Jordan Lanning mentioned. “I imply, they took too lengthy. That they had — it took them 5 days to get right here. I imply, it took 5 days for Biden to return right here and he didn’t assume we had been price coming right down to see us himself, he needed to fly over on his approach to Raleigh. It’s disgraceful, they maintain saying, ‘We the Folks.’ There isn’t a ‘We the Folks,’ it’s them versus us. They’re not for us.”
In a press launch from FEMA on October 4, the company revealed that the Biden-Harris administration had despatched greater than $45 million to hurricane aid efforts. Out of this quantity, greater than $150,000 went to individuals in Georgia, over $4.5 million went to South Carolina, over $124,000 went to Virginia, greater than $23 million went to Florida, and over $17 million went to individuals in North Carolina.
The company added that they’d acquired over “1,800 functions for catastrophe help” from individuals in Tennessee.
