‘Setting us up for catastrophe’: alarm at Trump attack on federal disaster agency
by Oliver Milman and Dharna Noor from US news | The Guardian on (#6TSBF)
The president is now setting his sights on Fema, the agency responsible for helping Americans after major disasters
Donald Trump has suggested paring back or even dismantling the federal response to major disasters, a move that would cut off aid that has largely helped support Republican-leaning states that voted for him in last year's US presidential election.
Trump said that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) had not done their job for the last four years" and that there would be a whole big discussion very shortly, because I'd rather see the states take care of their own problems".
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