Trump vowed to help the N.C. mountains rebuild after Helene. Frustration remains

The Washington Post quotes Natalie Simpson in an article about the Trump administration’s lack of support for FEMA. Simpson said she was shocked that North Carolina did not appoint a disaster response czar and said this could help explain the uneven response following Hurricane Helene. “If there were genuine problems with FEMA’s response, like not penetrating fast enough into the affected areas, somebody that the state appointed as czar would have been sounding the alarm earlier,” she said. “If FEMA was guilty of anything, the state of North Carolina is equally guilty of it,” Simpson added.