FEMA head said Ian aid will go to ‘all communities,’ rejecting Harris’ calls for ‘equity’

​The chief of the Federal Emergency Administration Company insisted Sunday that Hurricane Ian support might be supplied to “all communities” — dismissing Vice President Kamala Harris‘ earlier declare that the help needs to be “primarily based on fairness.”

​”​We’re going to assist all communities. I dedicated that to the governor, I decide to you proper right here that each one Floridians are going to have the ability to get the assistance that's out there to them via our applications​,” Deanne Criswell stated on CBS Information’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday. ​

Criswell was responding to a query from host Margaret Brennan about Harris’ Friday feedback and the backlash that they prompted, together with from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ re-election marketing campaign, which stated the remarks ​might trigger “undue panic.”

Earlier within the present, Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) stated the FEMA support needs to be colorblind. 

Deanne Criswell, administrator of FEMA, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves and Jim Craig of the Mississippi Well being Division go to the Metropolis of Jackson’s O.B. Curtis Water Remedy Facility.

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A yacht sits within the entrance yard of a house Within the wake of Hurricane Ian on October 2, 2022, in Fort Myers, Florida.

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“​We’re going to assist all communities,” FEMA head Deanne Criswell stated.

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Criswell responded that she had been on the bottom assessing harm from Hurricane Ian in Florida on Friday and Saturday and “there are lots of people which can be going to wish help on account of this.”

She additionally insisted that the federal authorities will take away any boundaries that hinder folks’s capability to entry support.

“T​hese folks that want our assist essentially the most are going to have the ability to entry the assistance that we provide. I do know that the ​v​ice ​p​resident and the ​p​resident, they share the identical values​,” Criswell stated, including “we're going to be there to assist all people that wants assist.”​​

Vice President Kamala Harris stated Hurricane Ian help needs to be “primarily based on fairness.”

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Individuals work at FEMA headquarters, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, in Washington.

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FEMA head Deanne Criswell insisted that Hurricane Ian support might be supplied to “all communities.”

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The vp raised eyebrows final week when she ​stated that “communities of coloration” needs to be first in line for hurricane reduction.

“We have now to deal with this in a manner that's about giving sources primarily based on fairness, understanding that we struggle for equality, however we additionally must struggle for fairness,” ​Harris ​advised actress Priyanka Chopra ​in an interview ​on the Democratic Nationwide Committee’s Ladies’s Management Discussion board on Friday.

“If we would like folks to be in an equal place, generally we have to take into consideration these disparities and do this work,” she ​stated.