NY Times: Biden Vows to ‘Rebuild the Way People of Maui Want to Build’

Eddy Garcia barely looked up as a trio of military helicopters whirled past the roadside farm where he was handing out papayas, oranges and burritos to people made homeless by the fire.

He said volunteers had stepped up to provide help that was slow in coming and waved away Biden’s trip as a public-relations ploy. “They failed us on every level,” he said of the government response. “Their red tape, their bureaucracy.”