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turbinetree

(26,998 posts)
Wed Jun 4, 2025, 09:33 AM Jun 2025

'FEMA didn't get the memo': Chaos reported in White House response to disasters

By Travis Gettys
Published June 4, 2025 6:51 AM ET

Sources revealed a troubling pattern in Donald Trump's second term that has resulted in chaos and delays in approving disaster relief funds.

Current and former officials with the Federal Emergency Management Agency say communication and coordination with the White House and agency leaders has dwindled, which has thrown up obstacles as local managers work to deliver assistance to states hit by winter storms, flooding and other natural disasters, reported CNN.

“This is more than just who gets to tell who," said one longtime FEMA official. "There are regulatory timelines, especially for individual assistance, that are in play, and these delays do affect the delivery of assistance. It is very frustrating to the state and local partners because they think we should be doing things, but without the paperwork we cannot execute on the declaration.”

https://www.rawstory.com/fema-2672306708/

Hey tariffs and tax cuts are more important................wait until hurricanes start hitting................this country is just plain f**ked..........

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'FEMA didn't get the memo': Chaos reported in White House response to disasters (Original Post) turbinetree Jun 2025 OP
By design, gum up the works, put glue in the bureaucracy, spend no money. bucolic_frolic Jun 2025 #1
And then privatize because the governmet agency is so fucked up. groundloop Jun 2025 #2

bucolic_frolic

(54,075 posts)
1. By design, gum up the works, put glue in the bureaucracy, spend no money.
Wed Jun 4, 2025, 09:36 AM
Jun 2025

That's the goal. Mission Accomplished.

groundloop

(13,570 posts)
2. And then privatize because the governmet agency is so fucked up.
Wed Jun 4, 2025, 12:35 PM
Jun 2025

Just wait, we'll be paying a subscription fee to get tornado warnings etc. etc. etc.

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