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turbinetree

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Wed Jun 4, 2025, 09:33 AM Jun 2025

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

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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