In Days After Helene, Not One Of The Biden-Harris Cabinet Visited
Hurricane Helene has resulted in over 160 deaths, with many individuals still unaccounted for in the affected areas of the American South. Despite the scale of the disaster, no cabinet officials from the Biden-Harris administration have been reported on-site or planning visits. President Biden spent the weekend at the beach in Delaware and was focused on a White House event celebrating the U.S. Olympic team, rather than disaster response. Vice President Kamala Harris was campaigning on the West Coast, hosting fundraising events instead of addressing the crisis. Other key officials, like Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, were also absent from disaster relief efforts, with Buttigieg reportedly preparing for a vice presidential debate and Mayorkas attending an awards ceremony in California. the administration’s response to the hurricane has drawn criticism for a lack of engagement and visible leadership during a time of significant national tragedy.
The death toll for Hurricane Helene has reached more than 160 and hundreds of Americans are still unaccounted for, as massive swaths of the American South are reeling from the natural disaster. The Dossier has found that not a single Biden-Harris administration cabinet official is on the ground in disaster areas, and none have expressed an intention to visit the sites most impacted by the hurricane.
President Biden spent Friday to Sunday at the beach in Delaware, according to his public schedule. On Monday, he was at the White House to celebrate the U.S. Olympic team.
When asked what he’s doing to help with the Helene response, Biden said he “was on the phone for two hours yesterday” while he was in reality just sitting on the beach in Delaware.
Vice President Kamala Harris spent the weekend campaigning and raising money on the West Coast, hosting high-dollar fundraisers and rallies in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Las Vegas.
After some blowback, her team released a “Veep”-like PR photo Monday on X, showcasing Harris on her plane (with unplugged headphones and blank pieces of paper in front of her), cosplaying a leader who is managing the Helene response.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, despite being the senior infrastructure guy in the cabinet, is once more nowhere to be found. His public schedule has not been updated since mid-August. Instead of focusing on assisting Helene victims, he was reportedly helping Tim Walz with debate prep for the vice presidential debate that occurred Tuesday evening. Instead of assisting with disaster relief, “Mayor Pete” was in Minnesota with Walz.
Department of Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas, who presides over the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), was also nowhere to be found. When Helene reached American territory, he was in California, hosting an awards ceremony for the U.S. Secret Service.
Instead of assisting with disaster relief efforts, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland was in Washington, D.C., Monday to celebrate the Olympic teams at the White House.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is in Italy meeting with the G7 nations, discussing how to impose stringent climate change policies upon humanity.
The Environmental Protection Agency administrator spent last week in New York City at an event called Climate Week NYC.
The U.S. Small Business administrator spent the weekend in Nebraska celebrating Native American tribes.
The FEMA director is the only mildly senior-level Biden-Harris official on the ground in the disaster areas. However, she is largely doing photo-ops with state governors and checking boxes.
This is the reality of an administration entirely controlled by the D.C. bureaucracy. With major swaths of the country in desperate need of federal resources, there is nobody to be held accountable for deploying assets to areas of need.
The cognitively-impaired president is at the beach. The vice president couldn’t care less. And the rest of their cabinet is busy fulfilling other “duties.”
This article is republished, with permission, from a version on the author’s Substack.
Jordan Schachtel is an independent journalist and the publisher of The Dossier on Substack.
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