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Trump signs order to shift disaster preparations from FEMA to state and local governments
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2025
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I'm skeptical that this is a good idea. Disasters happen infrequently. If you have one federal agency, you can move it around to deal with whatever is at issue. If you do it at state level, you need to replicate that so that any given state can have emergency management capability. That's probably wasteful, because you don't expect to have a concurrent emergency in all 50 states.
States can cooperate to share infrastructure directly.
Oh, like through mutual funding of an overarching entity? We could call it an "Emergency Management Agency" of some sort lmao
I feel like they already did that.
Like group up and pool our money... all 50 states ... possibly call it something... I think emergency something administration. 🤔 idk there used to be smart people for this sort of thing.
Yeah, sure, so long as they're all getting along with each other, and so long as they can coordinate who has what and what might be needed, and so long as no one state tries to cut costs on emergency planning and rely on other states bailing them out, yeah, we might end up with a much more expensive system that with almost the same capacity to clean up disasters as our current one