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bif

(26,906 posts)
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 10:37 AM Jun 2025

Tr*mp says he plans to phase out FEMA

After 2025 hurricane season

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he plans to phase out the Federal Emergency Management Agency after this year’s hurricane season, offering the clearest timeline yet for his administration’s long-term plans to dismantle the disaster relief agency and shift responsibility for response and recovery onto states.

“We want to wean off of FEMA, and we want to bring it down to the state level,” Trump told reporters during a briefing in the Oval Office, later saying, “A governor should be able to handle it, and frankly, if they can’t handle it, the aftermath, then maybe they shouldn’t be governor.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-plans-phase-fema-040445785.html

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Tr*mp says he plans to phase out FEMA (Original Post) bif Jun 2025 OP
It can't get bdamomma Jun 2025 #1
He's already gutted the National Weather Service bif Jun 2025 #3
Horrible bdamomma Jun 2025 #7
Post removed Post removed Jun 2025 #6
You love tRump. Say hi to user "Lower". . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2025 #8
I think maybe you shouldn't be President. dchill Jun 2025 #2
Like he can judge if a governor can or "can't handle it." NCDem47 Jun 2025 #4
He's finding a way to finance the next glorious parade. Ping Tung Jun 2025 #5
The Republican motto should be: "F*** you, your on your own!" DSandra Jun 2025 #9
Sentiments like "Secure the common welfare..." are a terrible inconvenience Torchlight Jun 2025 #10
That will cause property and casualty rates to skyrocket.... Xolodno Jun 2025 #11

bdamomma

(69,495 posts)
1. It can't get
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 10:44 AM
Jun 2025

any clearer he wants American people to be unprepared for any weather situation. He is lashing out big time.

That last sentence is evil to the core. He is throwing a temper tantrum and he wants Americans to suffer.

What a fuckhead reading this:

“We want to wean off of FEMA, and we want to bring it down to the state level,” Trump told reporters during a briefing in the Oval Office, later saying, “A governor should be able to handle it, and frankly, if they can’t handle it, the aftermath, then maybe they shouldn’t be governor.”




Response to bdamomma (Reply #1)

NCDem47

(3,413 posts)
4. Like he can judge if a governor can or "can't handle it."
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 10:46 AM
Jun 2025

What a joke.

A-hole.

Also, climate damaged communities will have to sell pennies on the dollar to get out. In swoops the fat cats.

Torchlight

(6,702 posts)
10. Sentiments like "Secure the common welfare..." are a terrible inconvenience
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 11:35 AM
Jun 2025

Insurance of domestic tranquility, providing for the common defense, and promotion of the general welfare don't get good ratings and are easily ignored by his monochrome base of feckless insubordinates.

Xolodno

(7,338 posts)
11. That will cause property and casualty rates to skyrocket....
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 12:16 PM
Jun 2025

....as private insurers and states have to absorb more of the catastrophe's. And with climate change, some states may see property values disintegrate as premiums make it impossible to afford to live there.

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