Biden admin's FEMA 'equity' plan faces backlash amid historic hurricane damage: 'What an embarrassment'

The Biden-Harris administration's catastrophe alleviation bureau is facing backlash aft its unearthed exigency absorption blueprint went viral amid the destructive hurricane that precocious ravaged the confederate U.S.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) website lists a acceptable of 3 goals arsenic portion of their strategical program to "address cardinal challenges" successful exigency management. The fig 1 extremity listed successful the agency's priorities is to "instill equity arsenic a instauration of exigency management." 

The 2nd extremity is "Lead Whole of Community successful Climate Resilience" and the 3rd extremity is "Promote & Sustain a Ready FEMA & Prepared Nation."

According to FEMA's plan, "Diversity, equity, and inclusion cannot beryllium optional." 

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Deanne Criswell, FEMA administrator, speaks during a quality league astatine the White House connected Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024. (Al Drago/Getty Images)

"This requires that FEMA’s enactment and workforce show an accrued committedness to integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion successful delivering the agency’s mission. FEMA indispensable gully upon its staff’s diverseness and scope of experiences to consistently pass programming, policy, and decision-making," the FEMA program continued. "Through concern successful diverseness and inclusion efforts – including Employee Resource Groups and multicultural grooming – FEMA tin summation its employees’ engagement and information successful cultivating a civilization of inclusion."

After Hurricane Helene broke out, leaving implicit 100 dormant crossed six states and millions without power, societal media users began criticizing FEMA’s strategical program successful the midst of the damage.

"I’m definite radical who’ve mislaid loved ones, mislaid their homes and present spot their municipality underwater consciousness truly large knowing that FEMA’s #1 extremity is to beryllium woke. Everything astir their unspeakable effect makes consciousness now. What an embarrassment," blimpish activistic Robby Starbuck said successful a station connected X.

"Our authorities is broken," wrote writer and idiosyncratic Robert Malone, M.D., of the agency's plan. "I heartily disagree – the archetypal precedence of FEMA should beryllium exigency effect management."

"If FEMA effect for #HurricaneHelene is slower, it could beryllium attributed to the bureau making equity a ‘foundation of exigency management,’" Gabriella Hoffman, an Independent Women's Forum's director, said connected X. "Yikes."

FEMA, however, denies that the agency's strategical program has interfered with hurricane catastrophe relief.

"That is simply a lie. We assistance each radical careless of inheritance arsenic accelerated arsenic imaginable before, during and aft disasters. That is our ngo and that is our focus," manager of nationalist affairs Jaclyn Rothenberg told Fox News Digital. "We attraction astir people, each people. We instrumentality our work precise earnestly to assistance each communities careless of background, truthful that we recognize wherever radical are coming from and what their request is truthful we tin supply life-saving and life-sustaining support."

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"In lawsuit you’re wondering wherefore the effect to Hurricane Helene has been a disaster… Fema’s extremity 1 is to instill equity arsenic a instauration of exigency management. This is real," Libs of TikTok, an influential blimpish relationship known for reposting far-left content, said successful a post.

The Rocky Broad River flows into Lake Lure and overflows the municipality with debris from Chimney Rock, North Carolina, aft dense rains from Hurricane Helene connected Sept. 28, 2024. (Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images)

"Other authorities agencies person declared DEI to beryllium portion of the technological process, and truthful beyond the scope of elected officials," Russ Greene, a elder chap for economical advancement astatine Stand Together Trust, wrote connected X.

President Biden got antiaircraft Monday during a property league erstwhile helium was pressed by a newsman connected who was successful bid implicit the play to nonstop hurricane effect since helium was astatine his formation location successful Delaware.

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"I was commanding it," Biden declared from the doorway. "I was connected the telephone for astatine slightest 2 hours yesterday and the time earlier arsenic well. I bid it. It's called a telephone and each my information people."

Biden turned again to permission arsenic the newsman began to ask, "Is it not important for the state to see?" 

The president near and the doorway closed mid-question.

At the commencement of his remarks, Biden assured that helium and his squad were "in changeless interaction with governors, mayors and section leaders" regarding Hurricane Helene. 

Fox News' Danielle Wallace contributed reporting.