FEMA shifted to states?

[Anonymous]

In Trump's FEMA EO, he is moving responsibility for disaster preparations to state and local governments. It said “common sense” investments by state and local governments to address risks ranging from wildfires to hurricanes and cyber attacks would enhance national security, but did not detail what they were or how they would be funded. “Preparedness is most effectively owned and managed at the state, local, and even individual levels, supported by a competent, accessible, and efficient federal government,” the order said. “When states are empowered to make smart infrastructure choices, taxpayers benefit.”

This literally doesn't make sense.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-signs-order-shift-disaster-preparations-fema-states-local-governments-2025-03-19/

[Anonymous]

The goal is to destroy the United States and sell it off to the billionaires

[Anonymous]

So sad for all those Trump voters in Missouri and Arkansas who just suffered tornado damage. /s

(I do feel bad for the liberals caught up in this).

[Anonymous]

Boy do I fear for the poor yokels in the Carolinas and Mississippi. But they keep voting for incompetent red governments that funnel aid to their rich buddies, so I guess they don’t fear for themselves.

[Anonymous]

Guess people should get ready for their state and local taxes to raise.

Further, infrastructure investment is something Democrats have been calling for which is why they created whole funding and programs for it last administration. Becuase you know helping states and the country make sustainable infrastructure investments is good for everyone.

Not sure why we need another review though when ACoR, FEMA, DOT and state agencies can already answer most questions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Guess people should get ready for their state and local taxes to raise.

Further, infrastructure investment is something Democrats have been calling for which is why they created whole funding and programs for it last administration. Becuase you know helping states and the country make sustainable infrastructure investments is good for everyone.

Not sure why we need another review though when ACoR, FEMA, DOT and state agencies can already answer most questions.

There's a lot of work that DOGE is doing that is duplicative of what agencies and departments have already done or are already doing - I think it is both ignorance of the scope of the government and then, once they realize what agencies and departments do, purposeful handicapping, for example by requiring all contracts and expenditures to be reviewed by a DOGE employee, etc.

[Anonymous]

I think FEMA has lost all credibility now that they were housing and looking after illegal immigrants. That was supposed to be a cost borne only by the “sanctuary cities” whose citizens voted to allow them into the country and pay to support them. Federal money and resources should never have been used for that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think FEMA has lost all credibility now that they were housing and looking after illegal immigrants. That was supposed to be a cost borne only by the “sanctuary cities” whose citizens voted to allow them into the country and pay to support them. Federal money and resources should never have been used for that.

The reason that FEMA was doing it was because they have a system set up for housing and did it for ICE, which does not. In this instance, it made sense for FEMA to use their system rather than having ICE create their own - in the federal government, some agencies handle things for other departments. For example, my DH receives his paycheck from a different department than his own because they handle payroll for multiple departments. I think there are several departments that handle these sorts of issues for other agencies and departments. DOGE seems to want to create one HR department that will handle that for every department, although they don't realize the scope of what they are proposing. Even if the federal government were reduced by half (which it won't be), using economies of scale in places makes sense but having one department handle everything for the entire government does not.

[Anonymous]

So does this mean I don’t have to subsidize aid to people who are choosing to live in flood zones, or hurricane and tornado prone areas?
Does this mean I ( a northerner) don’t have to pay for other people’s decisions to live in the sunbelt?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So does this mean I don’t have to subsidize aid to people who are choosing to live in flood zones, or hurricane and tornado prone areas?
Does this mean I ( a northerner) don’t have to pay for other people’s decisions to live in the sunbelt?

We are a country, and if there is ONE thing the federal government MUST and SHOULD do it is to help the citizens of all states when disaster strikes. That is literally the point of a federal, centralized government.

SO yeah, you subsidize the parts of the country that have earthquakes, tornadoes, fires, volcanoes, and other natural disasters even if you don't experience them.

[Anonymous]

If people can’t rebuild, the land is cheap and developers can swoop in and buy the land for cheap.

Gee, who do you think benefits from this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So does this mean I don’t have to subsidize aid to people who are choosing to live in flood zones, or hurricane and tornado prone areas?
Does this mean I ( a northerner) don’t have to pay for other people’s decisions to live in the sunbelt?

Except, don’t you want help when a disaster hits you? Have you learned nothing the last few years? No area is exempt from Mother Nature. She. An strike anywhere if the conditions are right

The folks in western North Carolina never would have envisaged what happened to them last fall. But it happened

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In Trump's FEMA EO, he is moving responsibility for disaster preparations to state and local governments. It said “common sense” investments by state and local governments to address risks ranging from wildfires to hurricanes and cyber attacks would enhance national security, but did not detail what they were or how they would be funded. “Preparedness is most effectively owned and managed at the state, local, and even individual levels, supported by a competent, accessible, and efficient federal government,” the order said. “When states are empowered to make smart infrastructure choices, taxpayers benefit.”

This literally doesn't make sense.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-signs-order-shift-disaster-preparations-fema-states-local-governments-2025-03-19/

Does governor kehoe know this? He’s about to request federal fema assistance for the tornado destruction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If people can’t rebuild, the land is cheap and developers can swoop in and buy the land for cheap.

Gee, who do you think benefits from this?

This is why they don't care if the farms fail. That's a lot of undeveloped land they can swoop in and develop.

[Anonymous]

I loathe Trump and all that he represents, but this actually makes sense. There is no real Constitutional justification for FEMA being a federal government responsibility. Which is not to say that it hasn't done good and important work. It has. But it also wasn't something that the founders would have ever considered to be a power of Congress.