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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At times like this everyone also only focuses on state and local fire and police, FEMA and National Guard.  What people miss are all of the other emergency support functions, like communications infrastructure, power plants, portable generators, what to do about chemical spills and ruptured oil tanks in hurricanes, all of the other things that make a disaster cascade into worse problems for local communities, and which make response and recovery harder. [b] Yet all of those other agencies are the ones that have been gutted and undermined by Trump[/b] and the Republicans.  They need to stop playing games to suit their corporate friends who are actually waging war on community safety by deregulating.  This is ridiculous.[/quote]

can you give any specifics on this? Gutted? I didn't think after 8 monhs in office he's even had his[b] fist[/b] budget acted on by Congress?[/quote]

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EPA for one.  Regardless of the Congressional budget, Pruitt's staff have still been moving forward with 30% plus cuts to staffing and budget and are already the smallest they've been since Reagan with more cuts coming.  And no sign of them stopping cutting despite the massive cry for EPA's help coming from Texas about all of the petrochemical industry, water treatment plants and other issues affected by Harvey.

This is ridiculous.  Congress needs to step in.  Pruitt needs to be removed if he doesn't understand his dismantling of EPA is a huge problem and massive public safety risk.[/quote]

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