TR*mp says he plans to phase out FEMA after 2025 hurricane season

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Source: CNN

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.”

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

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Sure, who needs government help after a disaster?

[Ocelot II]

1. So I guess there won't be any hurricanes next year?

[QED]

2. Using his mighty Sharpie, he'll redirect all hurricanes out to sea.

After all, he knows more about weather than God.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Americans are addicted to basic gov't services that other modern countries provide.

Health, science, medicine, education, vaccines, emergency assistance.

[Ocelot II]

5. It's not an addiction, which is an unhealthy dependence on something.

It's not unhealthy to depend on your government for basic services. The Constitution says one of the government's primary purposes is "to promote the general welfare," which Trump and the GOP apparently think is communism.

[Irish_Dem]

23. I was being sarcastic to point out how stupid the article was.

[Bluetus]

4. This is 100% illegal. FEMA is created by statute.

Only Congress can change this.

Why is this basic fact never mentioned in any of these reports?

[FredGarvin]

8. Trump overrides Congress

He always does.

Congress has no say.

[Bluetus]

11. That is illegal

Where are the lawsuits on all of these things? There have been some lawsuits contesting firings, but where are the lawsuits contesting the unilateral decisions to close agencies altogether?

And why is the media not reporting on this illegal activity?

[FredGarvin]

6. Trump himself will decide what states get billions in relief funds

Gotta admit it, Trump and the GOP are FULLY in control of America.

Really sad

[Skittles]

21. "WHAT CAN YOU DO FOR ME" will be the requirement to receive aid

[republianmushroom]

7. As if those Red southern states can afford hurricanes.

[FredGarvin]

9. The Red states are going to be paid handsomely

Trump is going to disperse billions depending on voting.
Florida is going to get a lions share of the funds

[Skittles]

22. NOPE

Trump doesn't care about them any more than he cares about blue states

the question he will ask will be WHAT CAN YOU DO FOR ME?

[Johonny]

10. Are these states raising taxes then

Or are we accepting home insurance is just not going to be a thing in large areas of the US?

[hay rick]

12. This year's inadequate hurricane response will be all about blaming Biden.

Next year's failures won't matter because no criticism will be allowed.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

13. Part of his plan to kill more Americans

Fucking idiot.

[kimbutgar]

14. I hope he's at mar a lago or bedminister when a massive unannounced storm hits that wipes out the place

I can dream and fantasize can’t I ?

[IronLionZion]

15. He can't handle anything useful, so maybe he shouldn't be president

[Cheezoholic]

16. Without FEMA and Fed assistance coastal communities can't rebuild. If they can't rebuild they disappear. THEN

the real estate developers move in and build multi million dollar resorts and mansions in new elite communities all along the sea from Brownsville to Cape Cod for pennies on the dollar. This is how they will finally remove the blight of commoners from beauty perceived as deserved by the few. There's a sinister plan at work here.

[maxsolomon]

17. Why wait, MFer?

TACO.

[BigmanPigman]

18. I bet tRump voters will complain about this

when they are not getting help from their States. I hope everyone who hears a constituent whine ask them who they voted for and sarcastically say, "My, my, what a shame". Followed by, "Tough shit, you get what you vote for idiot. You deserve this, I do NOT!

[Mysterian]

19. Digging their own graves

along with the graves of thousands of Americans.

[Ol Janx Spirit]

20. MAGA and their orange idol approach everything as if there is no history behind it.

That makes it easy for them to believe that something like FEMA was just cooked up by some bureaucrat for the sole purpose of expanding the bureaucracy--therefore it can be eliminated with no repercussions.

But the history of the US government needing to be involved in emergency management goes back to at least 1803 during the 7th US Congress. It is actually an interesting history, and it is one that culminates with the creation of FEMA to better coordinate all of the different agencies that were required to effectively respond to the various emergencies experienced by the American people.

Asking the simple question of why the federal government has had to be involved in emergency management in some capacity for the last 220 years would--or should--lead one quickly to the conclusion that it must be more complicated than just something the states can take care of on their own.

Sure, states can--and do--perform a lot of their own emergency management. There are many things they do very well. But there are many things the federal government is uniquely positioned to do--especially in the area of prevention. Consider flooding alone: The Mississippi River touches 10 states. The Ohio River river flows through or along the border of six states, and its drainage basin includes parts of 14 states. A lack of federal coordination leaves these states to figure out the issues surrounding mitigation and other responsibilities themselves.

Imagine also a nuclear powerplant disaster. Radiation--like so many other things--does not stop at the border of a state; and how many states have the capacity to deal with a nuclear meltdown on their own?

Which brings us to the other advantage the federal government currently has that most states do not: the lack of a balanced budget requirement. This comes in pretty handy when something happens that would otherwise force you to make drastic cuts to your state's services to pay for it.

Many things are like traffic lights: we hate sitting at them, but if they were all taken away tomorrow it would not take long before we realized how much safer and more effective they make our roadways and we would put them back in. Unfortunately a lot of lives would be lost in learning that lesson. We risk something similar with the destruction of FEMA.