Milton's gone, but the political storm keeps raging over federal government's hurricane efforts

One time aft Hurricane Milton tore a way of demolition crossed Florida, the decease toll is rising and millions stay without powerfulness oregon moving water.

As betterment efforts successful Florida scope a fever pitch, there's nary letup successful the warfare of words betwixt President Biden and erstwhile President Trump implicit the national government's effect to Milton and Hurricane Helene, which smashed into the southeast 2 weeks ago.

With Trump continuing to complaint that Biden and Vice President Harris person been dilatory and ineffective successful steering the government's tempest efforts, the president erstwhile again fired back.

"Vice President Harris and I person been successful changeless interaction with the authorities and section officials. We're offering everything they need," Biden emphasized connected Thursday.

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President Biden speaks and gives an update connected the interaction and the ongoing effect to Hurricane Milton, successful the South Court Auditorium connected the White House analyzable Oct. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

With little than 4 weeks to spell until Election Day, Harris and Trump are locked successful a constrictive margin-of-error showdown successful the contention to win Biden successful the White House, and with 2 of the hardest-hit states from Helene — North Carolina and Georgia — among the 7 cardinal battlegrounds that volition apt find the result of the 2024 election, the authorities of national catastrophe alleviation are again beforehand and halfway connected the run trail.

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For astir 2 weeks, Trump has been turning up the volume.

"THE WORST RESPONSE TO A STORM OR HURRICANE DISASTER IN U.S. HISTORY," Trump claimed successful a societal media station connected Tuesday.

"The worst hurricane effect since Katrina," the erstwhile president charged connected Wednesday arsenic helium pointed to the much-maligned archetypal national effect to Hurricane Katrina successful 2005, which was heavy criticized for being dilatory and ineffective.

On Thursday astatine a run lawsuit successful Michigan, Trump kept up the attacks. He praised confederate Republican governors for doing a "fantastic job" reacting to the storms and argued that "the national government, connected the different hand, has not done what you're expected to beryllium doing, successful particular, with respect to North Carolina. They've fto those radical endure unjustly, unjustly."

The erstwhile president has besides repeatedly made mendacious claims that FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) diverted wealth intended for catastrophe alleviation and spent it connected undocumented migrants successful the U.S. arsenic helium turned up the measurement connected his inflammatory rhetoric implicit the combustible contented of amerciable immigration.

"You cognize wherever they gave the wealth to: amerciable immigrants coming," Trump said astatine Wednesday's rally arsenic the assemblage of MAGA supporters loudly booed.

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Hours later, Biden pushed back, accusing the Republican statesmanlike nominee of starring an "onslaught of lies."

Biden charged that the rhetoric from Trump and different Republicans was "beyond ridiculous" and that "it’s got to stop."

President Biden talks with Deanne Criswell, head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, astatine Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport successful Greer, S.C., Oct. 2, 2024, to survey harm from Hurricane Helene. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

On Thursday, arsenic helium updated national hurricane effect efforts, Biden told reporters that Trump needed to "get a life, man, assistance these people."

And helium argued that "the nationalist volition clasp him [Trump] accountable" for making mendacious claims regarding the capabilities of FEMA to assistance tempest victims.

Trump run nationalist property caput Karoline Leavitt, responding to the criticism, said successful a connection to Fox News connected Thursday that Trump has been "working hard each time to prevention this state from the messiness Biden and Kamala got america into."

And Trump's son, Eric, successful a societal media post, highlighted that the household has opened up 1 of its Florida hotels to location implicit 200 linemen who are helping successful the storm's aftermath.

Trump past week besides launched a GoFundMe run for victims of Hurricane Helene successful Georgia, which has raised much than $7 cardinal truthful far.

But his disapproval of the national effect has besides been chided by Harris.

Democratic statesmanlike nominee Vice President Harris arrives astatine LaGuardia Airport, Oct. 7, 2024, successful New York. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

"This is not a clip for america to conscionable constituent fingers astatine each different arsenic Americans," the vice president said successful a Wednesday interrogation connected the Weather Channel. "Anybody who considers themselves to beryllium a person should truly beryllium successful the concern close present of giving radical a consciousness of assurance that we're each moving unneurotic and that we person the resources and the quality to enactment unneurotic connected their behalf."

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Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, who spoke with Biden connected Thursday greeting aft the tempest hit, seemed to compliment the administration's tempest efforts.

"I spoke with the president this morning," DeSantis said during 1 of his round-the-clock briefings. "He said helium wants to beryllium helpful. And truthful if we person a request, helium said, nonstop them his way, and helium wants to assistance america get the occupation done. So I admit being capable to collaborate crossed the federal, authorities and section governments and enactment unneurotic to enactment the radical first."

Fox News' Kirill Clark and Matteo Cina contributed to this report.

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