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(146,207 posts) Mon Jan 27, 2025, 08:30 AM Monday

Trump establishes council to review federal disaster response agency

Source: Reuters

January 27, 20251 12:31 AM EST Updated 8 hours ago

WASHINGTON, Jan 26 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday issued an executive order establishing a review council to evaluate the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), stopping short of instant action to shut or reshape the country's lead disaster response agency.

The order calls for the establishment of council made up of relevant federal leaders and "distinguished individuals" selected by Trump from outside government. Trump called on the council to hold its first public meeting within 90 days and submit a report to him within 180 days of the first meeting.

Trump raised the idea of shuttering FEMA during a trip on Friday to disaster areas in North Carolina and California, vowing to sign an executive order to overhaul or eliminate the agency.

The Republican president accused FEMA of bungling emergency relief efforts there and said he preferred that states be given federal money to handle disasters themselves.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-issues-executive-order-establishing-review-council-fema-2025-01-26/

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Oh no! lark Monday #1

Red states do everything they can to exacerbate climate warming but demand billions when storms hit. Lonestarblue Monday #2

Has Trump forgotten toilet flushing and shower pressure? twodogsbarking Monday #3

lark

(24,453 posts)

1. Oh no!

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Mon Jan 27, 2025, 08:49 AM

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Floridians will be so fucked if they do this. Death Sentence wouldn't help people in the poor/working class cities when he was in charge of vaccines. Only big rich areas got the vaccines, you couldn't get them in No. FL. They were totally unavailable here unless you had R connections. Think about what Abbott would do!!

tcf is doing his very best to reduce the working class and poor so the rich can steal every penny in SS that we've got coming to us.

Lonestarblue

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2. Red states do everything they can to exacerbate climate warming but demand billions when storms hit.

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Mon Jan 27, 2025, 09:09 AM

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And it is a lot of blue state tax dollars going to the very states that are making the storms worse. I know it will not change, but why should some states make the problems worse and still get federal dollars to fix the damage they helped cause? I’m not against federal aid, but it seems to reward both bad policies and good ones equally. Of course Trump wants to destroy FEMA so he can send disaster relief to red states and deny blue states any help unless they agree to policies to hurt people.

twodogsbarking

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3. Has Trump forgotten toilet flushing and shower pressure?

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Mon Jan 27, 2025, 10:02 AM

Monday

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