The following is a transcript of an interview with FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell that aired on 'Face the Nation' on August 20, 2023.
August 20, 2023 / 9:46 AMThe following is a transcript of an interview with FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell that aired on"Face the Nation" on August 20, 2023.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, I know you will be traveling with President Biden to Hawaii. What is it that you think he needs to see firsthand? CRISWELL: You know, I think what I would say is that we are seeing, right, a significant increase in the severity of the types of events that we're experiencing, the severe weather events that are fueled by these extreme winds, which is what we saw here, right, records, decades of droughts, dry conditions, and then these winds. And so when all of these different climate related events come together, you know, it produces these catastrophic type events.
MARGARET BRENNAN: The cost of this is going to be a conversation here in Washington, as you know. You testified before Congress back in July that FEMA's disaster funds would be depleted by late August. That comes right in that Atlantic hurricane season time period. FEMA officials said on Friday to reporters that the agency has sufficient resources to meet the immediate life saving operations. Those things seem contradictory.
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