FEMA can’t help with SC wildfires due to travel restrictions? Fact-checking viral claim

Could South Carolina be missing out on needed federal assistance as the state deals with spreading wildfires?

That’s the claim in a recent viral social media post, with Bluesky account Mueller, She Wrote posting on Tuesday: “A source tells me that response teams for FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) set to deploy to the South Carolina wildfires are unable to travel because their government issued travel cards have had their limits reduced to $1. FEMA response team cards were supposed to be exempt.”

NEW: A source tells me that response teams for FEMA set to deploy to the South Carolina wildfires are unable to travel because their government issued travel cards have had their limits reduced to $1. FEMA response team cards were supposed to be exempt.

— Mueller, She Wrote ( @muellershewrote.bsky.social ) March 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM

The post had received more than 11,000 reposts as of Wednesday afternoon, but it’s unclear if the claim boasts any merit…

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