These claims about the Helene recovery efforts are false

The head of the U.S. disaster response agency continued to forcefully push back Monday against false claims and conspiracy theories about her agency’s response to Hurricane Helene as the death toll from the storm continued to climb.

Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Deanne Criswell pointed to the agency's massive, collaborative effort that keeps growing, and she strongly urged residents in hard-hit areas to accept the government’s offer for assistance.

“We have thousands of people on the ground, not just federal, but also our volunteers in the private sector,” Criswell said at a news conference in Asheville, North Carolina. “And frankly, that type of rhetoric is demoralizing to our staff that have left their families to come here and help the people of North Carolina. And we will be here as long as they’re needed.”

Misinformation has spread over the past week in communities hit the hardest by Helene, including that the federal government is intentionally withholding aid to people in Republican areas. Former President Donald Trump and other Republicans have questioned FEMA’s response and falsely claimed that its funding is going to migrants or foreign wars.

[ReallyAtlanta]

Let me help make it simple with the 11 comments and only 1 showing. People have been blatantly lied to, mistreated and put down SO much in their own country nobody knows what's true or false anymore. Simple.

[FrancisKinsleyJr]

NC Governor is a Democrat and won't go against the machine.

[jdfromsc]

Stop with the BS already!! Nobody believes you because they can see it with their own eyes.

[nan]

FEMA helped but not enough and showed up too late, they knew the severity of this storm, help came too little too late, death toll too high, the young and elderly tormented again. FEMA needs to prepare ahead and get there immediately. Regular people don’t have the means to prepare or evacuate, many don’t have cars that run good or gas money to prepare ahead, the government knows all this they gave the inflation they shut down the small businesses they took our livelihoods away. Why the deadly delay if they care?

[michaelangelo]

The military should have been called up the next day. Weren’t.

[michaelangelo]

Too many activists posing as reporters. The Biden Harris Mayorkas response was dysfunctional.

[HowieC-dk]

😡😡😡😡😡😡
Stop lying to the people hurting from the floods!!@

[edvice]

Look at all the uneducated clowns posting conspiracies .. pathetic!