Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance recently criticized the Biden-Harris administration's handling of the response to Hurricane Helene in an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal. Vance alleged that a bureaucratic bottleneck was causing delays in deploying active-duty military personnel to the western mountains of North Carolina.
Vance pointed out that as of Friday, Oct. 4, less than half of the 1,000 troops assigned to operations in Western North Carolina were deployed. He credited statements from North Carolina Sens. Ted Budd and Thom Tillis for prompting the Pentagon to authorize an additional 500 troops on Sunday.
