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Trump Says He Wants FEMA Eliminated After Hurricane Season-"The FEMA thing has not been a very successful experiment," Trump said. (gizmodo.com)

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“We want to wean off of FEMA and we want to bring it down to the state level,” Trump said from the Oval Office. “The FEMA thing has not been a very successful experiment. Very, very expensive and it doesn’t get the job done.”

Kristi Noem, the Secretary of Homeland Security, said, “We all know from the past that FEMA has failed thousands, if not millions, of people. And President Trump does not want to see that continue into the future. So this agency fundamentally needs to go away as it exists.”

Trump explained on Tuesday how he recently gave $71 million “to a certain state” despite the fact that they wanted $120 million. Trump appeared to be talking about the $71 million sent to Missouri after the recent severe storms and tornadoes there in April and May. Missouri’s governor, Mike Kehoe, is a Republican, and he released a statement Monday saying the state appreciated Trump and was “grateful for the President’s leadership.”

It’s obvious where this is all headed. Trump wants to set up a system where those who show fealty get money, and those who don’t will have funds withheld. That’s not how the U.S. system is supposed to operate, but it’s clearly where we’re headed.

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[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

He thinks he's hurting blue states, but he's mostly going to screw his voters.

There's a 0% chance he gives the money currently earmarked for FEMA back to the individual states or redistributes it in a way that lower-risk states are paying more towards higher-risk states. The leopards are going to be well-fed from this stupidity, that's for sure.