The FEMA response to Hurricane Helene was a failure.
Hard questions are being asked about the embattled agency.
And an Army sniper put FEMA on notice with one move that’s their worst fear.
FEMA faces fresh scrutiny after Hurricane failures
Hurricane Helene became the deadliest storm to strike the country in the last 50 years behind Hurricane Katrina after it killed more than 130 people.
Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee dealt with Biblical flooding after the storm dumped record rainfall on the region.
The Biden-Harris administration was nowhere to be found in the initial aftermath in hard-hit North Carolina.
Private citizens and charities stepped up while the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) dragged its feet getting to North Carolina.
Insult was added to injury when Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas claimed that FEMA was out of money for the rest of hurricane season after Helene.
FEMA had doled more than $600 million his year transporting and caring for illegal aliens.
Homeland Security Inspector General Joseph Cuffari found that FEMA had at least $8 billion in unspent money available to it.
That report was the last straw for one Congressman.
A push to audit FEMA begins after mismanagement
Representative Cory Mills (R-FL) – a former sniper of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division – was on the ground helping with search and rescue efforts in Western North Carolina.
He’s been critical of FEMA for losing sight of its mission of disaster relief by assisting with the resettlement of illegal aliens by the Biden-Harris administration.
Mills thought that FEMA may have discovered the unspent money after it was embarrassed in its response to Hurricane Helene during an appearance on Fox Business.
“I wonder if it has something to do with the fact that it was Americans helping Americans embarrassing his administration the same way I did in Afghanistan in ’21 or Israel in ’23 or in Haiti in ’24,” Mills said. “The list goes on.”
The former sniper personally led rescue missions into those countries after the Biden-Harris administration left Americans stranded there.
White House officials and the media have tried to claim that any criticism of the federal government’s response to Helene is misinformation.
q“““`”I spent five days out in North Carolina delivering over 23,000 pounds of different supplies and doing search and rescue and medevacs, and I did not see a single FEMA truck the entire time,” Mills explained. “So, this is not misinformation. This is not propaganda. This is from me on the ground, witnessing it myself.”
Fox Business Host Elizabeth MacDonald suggested that FEMA get audited.
Mills agreed but cautioned about the lack of transparency from the Biden-Harris administration.
“But we also have to acknowledge that since Biden has taken office, we also have not had a single Department of Defense (DOD) audit,” Mills explained. “So keep that in mind, it is not just under [the Department of Homeland Security], but also the DOD and others who fail to actually be able to even pass their own independent audits or their own internal audits, for that matter.”
Sunlight is the best disinfectant for FEMA.
“And so yes, we have to be good stewards of taxpayers’ money,” Mills said. “We have to ensure that disaster relief funds get to the people in need, and that is why, today, with Mercury One and other charities, we are able to drop supplies to Seminole County to get things to children like a teddy bear to hug who just lost everything; to get food, water, toiletries, and generators. We have to get the solutions, and it has to start with auditing the Department of Homeland Security and this administration.”
FEMA is in desperate need of accountability after the agency failed at its most important mission.
Stay tuned to Unmuzzled News for any updates to this ongoing story.
