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applegrove

(127,090 posts)
Thu Jan 23, 2025, 11:27 AM Jan 2025

Trump Says FEMA Is 'Getting in the Way'

Trump Says FEMA Is ‘Getting in the Way’

January 22, 2025 at 10:57 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 89 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2025/01/22/trump-says-fema-is-getting-in-the-way/

"SNIP.........

President Trump plans to have a “whole big discussion very shortly” on the Federal Emergency Management Agency because he’d “rather see the states take care of their own problems,” Axios reports.

Said Trump: “FEMA is a whole ‘nother discussion because all it does is complicate everything… FEMA has not done their job for the last four years.”

.......SNIP"

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Trump Says FEMA Is 'Getting in the Way' (Original Post) applegrove Jan 2025 OP
Dump doesn't care about helping people sakabatou Jan 2025 #1
Blue States ...... Lovie777 Jan 2025 #2
Another launching pad for secession Charging Triceratops Jan 2025 #3
Total Inefficiency to duplicate FEMA 50 times and PAY for it locally bucolic_frolic Jan 2025 #4
Anything or anyone who does good in the world is in the way. Irish_Dem Jan 2025 #5
I suspect he wants to personally DICTATE which states get relief funds. NT Cowpunk Jan 2025 #6
Or privatize it... nt Shipwack Jan 2025 #8
Bingo yorkster Jan 2025 #10
Trump didn't do his job in his first four years. OLDMDDEM Jan 2025 #7
That Will Make The People In WNC Happy Deep State Witch Jan 2025 #9
i think the red states benefit more from Fema than anyone else. samsingh Jan 2025 #11
OK, then blue states get to first set aside what they will need for disaster response tanyev Jan 2025 #12

bucolic_frolic

(51,626 posts)
4. Total Inefficiency to duplicate FEMA 50 times and PAY for it locally
Thu Jan 23, 2025, 11:33 AM
Jan 2025

This is like an insurer walking away when the claim is filed. Privatizing risk and cost. Total abrogation of the social compact, the United States, E Pluribus Unum. This is un-American.

Deep State Witch

(12,050 posts)
9. That Will Make The People In WNC Happy
Thu Jan 23, 2025, 11:46 AM
Jan 2025

They were all complaining about not needing FEMA. Except for them libruls in Asheville, who knew better.

tanyev

(47,287 posts)
12. OK, then blue states get to first set aside what they will need for disaster response
Thu Jan 23, 2025, 12:42 PM
Jan 2025

BEFORE sending in any revenue to the federal government.

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