Axios: Trump suggests states should handle emergency response instead of FEMA

[Dennis Donovan]

Axios - Trump suggests states should handle emergency response instead of FEMA

Rebecca Falconer
Updated 6 hours ago

President Trump plans to have a "whole big discussion very shortly" on the Federal Emergency Management Agency because he'd "rather see the states take care of their own problems," according to an interview broadcast Wednesday evening.

Why it matters: Trump has signed a multitude of executive orders since taking office again on Monday and he indicated on Fox News in his first interview since being inaugurated that he could have FEMA in his sights.

• Trump and others in the GOP have in recent months complained that FEMA's disaster response has been biased against Republicans.

Driving the news: "The FEMA is getting in the way of everything," Trump said on Fox News' "Hannity."

• "FEMA is a whole 'nother discussion because all it does is complicate everything," he told Fox News' Sean Hannity in the prerecorded interview.
• "FEMA has not done their job for the last four years."
• Trump gave the example of if Oklahoma were hit by a tornado, then the state should be allowed to respond "and then the federal government can help them out with the money."

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[gab13by13]

1. Have to pay for those tax breaks for billionaires some way.

Those paper towels are going to get more expensive.

[Walleye]

2. He has no idea how these agencies work. Why does anybody listen to him?

[JHB]

3. Time for a hurricane to wipe out power for a hundred miles around Mar A Lago

Nothing more guaranteed for him to bring in resources from other states

[The Madcap]

5. Or better yet

Level mar a lardo

[JHB]

6. A second one can do that. Having all of his club members complaining about power will annoy him

...though for Malware Blargo itself he'll just have the military bring in generators on the pretense it's the "southern White House".

[Terry_M]

4. Makes sense

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This is just like businesses operate, instead of outsourcing things to specialists, they all always do everything in house. It's more effective to train to handle things you only need to do once a decade in house - than to have companies that do that same thing regularly emerge and do them for you when you need them.

Wait, hold on a second.....

[tanyev]

7. So the plan for the new season of The Apprentice is to pit all 50 states against each other.

And at the end the winning state will be declared Trump State.

(Spoiler alert, they want to merge them into one giant state called Trump State.)

[dweller]

8. Waaaaahh !!

Everything is biased against repugs , not fair !!
Actually they expect special treatment above everyone else



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[Seinan Sensei]

9. FEMA replaced by State efforts

Then State efforts replaced by county efforts.
Which are replaced by City efforts.
Which are replaced by neighborhood efforts.
Which are replaced by individual efforts

And Megadonors win again