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Ya’ll going to be prepared to just have the federal government just go away in terms of its response and leave it to you
he asked after naming Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, North Carolina, Ohio and Iowa How are they going to pay for it?” ... This is what they voted for.”
What's hazardous waste? We're going to have to define that.”
He downplayed the concerns about toxins, saying We’re going to need your support. We’re going to need your help,
FEMA is incompetently run, and it costs about three times more than just we can spend money on schools instead of giving money to bureaucracy,
Trump said, drawing some applause from the crowd That will not be the case,
Bass said, after saying she had signed executive orders cutting the red tape And I say, you don't need FEMA. You need a good state government. And when you have a problem in Los Angeles, or when you have a problem even in the state of California, you have your own ... FEMA, you fix it yourself. You don't have somebody coming in from a state where they have no idea,
What FEMA did in North Carolina, you know, they still haven't gone to certain areas. They don't know what they're doing,
I’m speechless to see all the houses burnt, and I can’t believe that Azul the bus — that’s what we named it — survived,
the van’s owner, Megan Krystle Weinraub, told CNN’s Erin Burnett We’re not going to change the weather patterns,
We can’t keep adding more parts to FEMA and expect the agency to be able to accomplish its mission,
We need to take him at his word, and I think state emergency management directors should be concerned about what this means for spring tornado season”
With that many disaster declarations … it’s like nothing we’ve ever seen before,
After Hurricane Harvey in 2017, the agency has been redlining ever since, and has been stuck in this response phase,
I don’t believe they truly understand what our role is,
Criswell said of Trump and Republicans calling for such overhauls Think about how much time and money would be spent standing up FEMA as an independent agency,
said Craig Fugate, who served under Obama We’re seeing hurricane season last longer, we’re seeing spring severe weather season get more significant and we’re seeing the fire season go year-round now,
said Criswell, who served in President Joe Biden’s administration It’s become a dumping ground for complex problems,
said Brock Long, FEMA’s administrator during Trump’s first term It really should be an agency void of politics,
We’ve come to North Carolina with a simple message,
Trump said while in North Carolina
