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The White House is making a concerted effort to defend and explain the federal reaction to the Maui wildfires, highlighting what it describes as a “robust whole-of-government response” on the island.
Yet as the death toll in Hawaii continues to rise, President Joe Biden hasn’t commented on the devastating fires since brief remarks in Salt Lake City Thursday, raising eyebrows and prompting conservative criticism as he replied “no comment” to a question on the deaths while departing Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, over the weekend.
Biden ignored shouted questions when returning to the White House on Monday, with no further public events on his schedule. On Tuesday,
