The 'good news' about FEMA’s Helene response Trump won’t say: columnist

As Donald Trump and his allies, like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), are adamant about pushing false claims about the federal response to Hurricane Helene, other lawmakers like Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) are working to combat them with facts.

In a Wednesday column written by MSNBC's Hayes Brown, he submits that "while FEMA has been rightly criticized for years as ineffective, slow and overly bureaucratic, the lies that the Republicans are pushing are different."

Parroting claims like "FEMA will run out of money before the end of the year because it gave that money to migrants," is a clear effort "to sow distrust among people trying to rebuild their lives, potentially disrupting the flow of information about which areas need help the most,'" Brown writes.

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"The good news is that FEMA put new rules in place this year to lower the hurdles for receiving disaster relief," the MSNBC Daily editor continues. "That includes immediate cash for individuals’ emergency expenses and making it easier to help people whose insurance doesn’t fully cover their losses."

Brown also notes that due to this improvement, President Joe Biden's administration is "getting aid to Helene survivors more quickly than past policies would have allowed."

"You wouldn’t know it from the lies being told by Trump and other right-wing agitators," Brown emphasizes.

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Brown's full column is available at this link.