White House appears to be backing away from pledge to ‘phase out’ disaster-relief agency, even as key leaders have left
As the cleanup continues from this month’s torrential rain storms and flooding in Texas that left more than 120 dead, recently departed officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) say the organization is dangerously underresourced and overstretched in the event of further natural catastrophes.
A mass staff exodus, plunging morale and a loss of key leaders has left the main US disaster-relief organization ill-equipped to cope with an anticipated deadly spate of storms in the current hurricane season, former agency insiders say.
Fema’s weakness, exacerbated by grant cuts imposed by the Trump administration and the loss of institutional knowledge in strategic leadership positions, will be exposed if the nation is faced with more than one disaster simultaneously, according to Michael Coen, the agency’s former chief of staff.
Who’d have thought, people that vehemently hate the government don’t actually understand what it does and how it works.
It’s the best way to get people to hate something.
The vast majority of people really don’t have a clue how their own system works…
It’s not just Republicans.
Republican cuts, they all voted for it.
Enjoy the day you voted for, Texas
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Not all of us voted for this
Bootstraps.
