House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) slammed the Biden-Harris administration’s response to Hurricane Helene during an interview with The Daily Wire’s news podcast “Morning Wire.”
Johnson said Republicans’ criticism of the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) is “fair,” adding that the “utter lack of leadership” from President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has “failed the American people.” More than 200 people were killed in the destruction of Hurricane Helene, which made landfall in northern Florida before moving across parts of Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina in late September.
“We still have people in need of rescue and supplies and water, food, and medicine. And it’s inexcusable that the executive branch of the federal government has just failed in this effort,” Johnson told Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley in an interview that will air on Tuesday…