A Hawaiian woman who said that she lost her home, vehicle, animals, medicine, and rent money due to wildfires noted that the $700 payments being offered to those impacted by the disaster pales in comparison to the massive quantities of aid that the U.S. has shoveled into the nation of Ukraine.
“I haven’t had any money come in. I haven’t had anybody call me back,” she said in a video posted on X by Jeremy Loffredo.
“I lost my house. I lost my car. I lost my animals,” the woman said, noting that her “medicine was all burnt in my house. My rent money was all burnt in my house. I have no money anymore.”
“I think Joe Biden should take his $700 and get back on the f***in’ plane and go home, that’s what I think,” she added. She then juxtaposed “$700 compared to all the millions he’s given” to the nation of Ukraine. “Fix your house before you fix somebody else’s house,” she said.
Loffredo described the woman he spoke to as an “indigenous Lahaina local.”
According to the White House, FEMA has authorized payments of $700 per household to assist people displaced and facing critical needs due to the fires.
“Critical Needs Assistance provides a onetime payment of $700 to address immediate needs such as food, water and clothing. This is just one of several types of federal assistance you may be eligible to receive,” according to FEMA.
The U.S. has provided billions of dollars’ worth of aid to assist Ukraine as that embattled nation has been fighting against a Russian invasion for more than a year.
Someone replied to Loffredo’s post asking who the woman is and noted that they would “gladly send $100 to her directly.”
Loffredo responded, writing, “Venmo: Joy-Shelton-4.”
The giving individual later posted a screenshot showing that they had sent the woman $100.
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