House Speaker Kevin McCarthy indicated Wednesday that lawmakers in Washington will launch a probe into the deadly Maui fires as mounting evidence shows the government’s failure to respond appropriately.
“Look, we’ve got disasters going off in this country. We saw the devastation that has happened in Maui… I’m very concerned about the response,” Mr. McCarthy told reporters after a GOP fundraising event in Syracuse, New York. “We still have hundreds of individuals that are missing. I think there’s going to have to be a congressional investigation in response of what happened in Maui.”“How could we lose that many Americans in today’s age? And the federal response seems very delayed,” he said.
President Biden, who visited the island after receiving backlash for telling a reporter he had “no comment” days earlier about the disaster, received a sour response over remarks he made while touring the destruction in Maui. According to an Associated Press report at the time of the incident, the fire was under control in 20 minutes.According to reports, Hawaii failed to cut back on the island’s overgrowth of non-native grasses, making it vulnerable to such deadly blazes.
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