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Trump Drops Bombshell

What do we need FEMA for anyway? President Donald Trump recently observed. All they do is get in the way and waste money. Democrats are still spinning from the flood of executive orders he signed on day one. He hasn’t got anything formal started to disband the Federal Emergency Management Agency but his legal teams are kicking it around. The idea is let the states clean up their own messes, with direct federal funding to cover the expense.

FEMA in crosshairs

One of the best ways to reduce fraud and waste in the federal government is eliminating FEMA. Last year’s performance was one of their worst on record. They outright admitted denying services to anyone displaying a Trump political sign in their yard.

Entire communities were forced to dig themselves out of the hurricane rubble all up and down the southeastern United States.

Over in California, as arson fires raged, there wasn’t any relief money to pay the firefighters. That’s because Alejandro Mayorkas kept funneling the aid money into aiding and abetting the migrant invasion. When the disasters hit, FEMA went to congress and begged for more money.

Then, they spent it on migrants again. When the next round of disasters hit, once more, Mayorkas whined the bank accounts were empty. He got even more money. He spent it again and now there’s none for the current California fires. It’s a good thing he’s been kicked out of Washington.

Trump’s a little busy right now, ending wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, while Making America Great Again. As soon as the president gets a free minute he “plans to have” a “whole big discussion very shortly” about the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Instead of throwing money away through FEMA, the president would “rather see the states take care of their own problems.

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All they do is waste taxpayer money.

Getting in the way

FEMA, Trump told Sean Hannity, “is getting in the way.” All they do is “complicate everything.” The disaster relief agency “has not done their job for the last four years.” Let’s say Oklahoma gets hit with a tornado.

The state should be allowed to respond and then the federal government can help them out with the money.

The only thing standing in the way is an accidental byproduct of snarled bureaucracy. Trump’s suggestion would require a major shakeup in emergency response, given how “Congress has expanded FEMA’s authority by assigning responsibilities to it, codifying it in various laws.

Let the states clean up their own messes.

They assumed FEMA would be part of the government forever.

The idea isn’t new. Conservatives have been suggesting “reforming FEMA emergency spending to shift the majority of preparedness and response costs to states and localities instead of the federal government” for a long time. Pretty much ever since Jimmy Carter created it in 1979.

About the same time he gave away our Panama Canal. In 2006, “Congress passed legislation in 2006 that established FEMA as a distinct agency within DHS following the devastating Hurricane Katrina the previous year.

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