Secretary for the homeland of Christ Noem has requested one of six survivors Lahaina Wildfires He had to trade sexual and other services in Hawaii to get basic supplies.
The comments were seemingly compared to the report on the Filipino’s female survivors, which one of the authors called “gross manipulation” reports, toward Politico.
At the meeting of the meeting for the Federal Agency for Emergency Management Agency on Wednesday, NOEM said, “after the fire in Maui, the inhabitants expressed concerns Any employee of the Femet they talked with had different answers. “
“None of them had conversations that resulted in getting help It was useful or any clarity in their situations, “she added.” The situation in Lahain was so bad that one of the six survivors was forced to trade sexual amenities, remain favorable for just basic stocks. “
The Philippine survivors conducted Tagnawa, which states that it is “Filipino Feminist disaster response in Hawaii. Answers of 70 female survivorships have revealed that 16 percent were” sex survivors in exchange for the basic necessities after disaster “, with “Home, Employer, family members, friends and acquaintances.”
One of the authors of the report, Kara Jabola-Carolus, said Politico That Trump administration has misinterpreted findings.
“It is more worried about gross manipulation using these statistics to do the opposite of what the report calls,” she said. “As if they finance FEMA to improve their response for women’s needs.”
In May, the volumes, DHS states that the report showed “the terrible neglect of FEME and poor management under military administration”.
At the meeting for the examination of Feme Noem he said, “This job of rewriting this agency is not almost as simple as it should be.”
“Because we’re in the last decades of gross bad governance and negligence,” she added. “The FEMA failure is stunning. The scale of these failures is only adjusted by their longevity. Fema was sometimes catastrophic, incompetent occasionally. And not only in recent years, but for decades.”
President Donald Trump He watches the agency shutdown for a while. Last month, he said he wanted states to stop using the agency. The Trump Administration has canceled FEMA grants worth billions intended for local community protection projects from natural disasters.
At the same time, White house Officials praised the work of the Agency on response to floods in the Land of Texas Hill, where more than a hundred people were killed.