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babylonsister

(172,368 posts)
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 07:59 AM 12 hrs ago

FEMA Is Paralyzed

https://politicalwire.com/2025/09/29/fema-is-paralyzed/

FEMA Is Paralyzed
September 29, 2025 at 6:46 am EDT By Taegan Goddard


Wall Street Journal: “Many of FEMA’s core functions related to preparing for natural disasters and leading recovery efforts after they strike have ground to a halt as the Trump administration redefines the agency.”

“Crucial contracts and grants haven’t been approved, caught up in layers of new bureaucracy. A wave of senior staff departed the agency when Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency offered buyouts, taking decades of experience with them. Around 400 FEMA employees have been detailed to work at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as that agency rapidly expands. And the administration has started dismantling the agency’s disaster-response infrastructure, which was strengthened in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.”
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FEMA Is Paralyzed (Original Post) babylonsister 12 hrs ago OP
USA is paralyzed...... Lovie777 12 hrs ago #1
Agree. Where is MSM analysis of all the damage done? nt wiggs 10 hrs ago #13
And when something bad happens as a result newdeal2 12 hrs ago #2
Kinda/Sorta no_hypocrisy 12 hrs ago #3
"redefines" oh feck off with that. 617Blue 12 hrs ago #4
Rest assured if MaL loses one single shingle..... ProudMNDemocrat 12 hrs ago #5
Message auto-removed Name removed 12 hrs ago #6
maga states are the weakest and need FEMA the most. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz 12 hrs ago #7
It's by design... MaeScott 11 hrs ago #8
What? Old Crank 10 hrs ago #9
GOP: crickets. nt wiggs 10 hrs ago #10
Just an arm of the autocrats. They have no autonomy, and are simply accomplices in a control agenda. nt Evolve Dammit 4 hrs ago #18
What is going on?? Millions could lose housing, millions could lose health coverage, millions could wiggs 10 hrs ago #11
Simply this - Rich Folk and MAGA live in bubbles. haele 9 hrs ago #14
MAGA destroying services geared towards everyone and keeping the money for themselves ChicagoTeamster 10 hrs ago #12
This is by design dlk 8 hrs ago #15
It's response (or lack of) to the Texas floods in July aplty illustrates its new mission statement. Torchlight 8 hrs ago #16
See; the way it works now is that you have to give money to Kristi Noem to be eligible... EarthFirst 8 hrs ago #17
Thanks for sharing this, EarthFirst. I love ProPublica. ❤️ littlemissmartypants 3 hrs ago #20
This is what you get for playing favorites with disaster relief money. Initech 4 hrs ago #19

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,264 posts)
5. Rest assured if MaL loses one single shingle.....
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 08:30 AM
12 hrs ago

Orange Julius will DEMAND compensation at taxpayer's expense.

Response to babylonsister (Original post)

Old Crank

(6,261 posts)
9. What?
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 10:09 AM
10 hrs ago

The Republicans adding layers of bureaucracy?
How can tha be?
Who is getting paid off?

Evolve Dammit

(21,254 posts)
18. Just an arm of the autocrats. They have no autonomy, and are simply accomplices in a control agenda. nt
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 04:40 PM
4 hrs ago

wiggs

(8,451 posts)
11. What is going on?? Millions could lose housing, millions could lose health coverage, millions could
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 10:45 AM
10 hrs ago

lose food support, millions could die globally due to USAID cuts...environmental air/water disasters...climate change...likely ethnic cleansing in several arenas.

Yet headlines and editorial pages have yet to put together a comprehensive analysis of the overall consequences...and certainly the GOP is aware yet complicit. Foreign outlets such as the guardian and independent offer much more objective articles. At home...cautious accounts of the latest shooter, Comey, criticism of Harris's book, shutdown, Eric Adams.

The beginning of this happened a while ago...we may be mid-course but still without knowing where we are going.

haele

(14,641 posts)
14. Simply this - Rich Folk and MAGA live in bubbles.
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 10:53 AM
9 hrs ago

They only recognize at most a couple thousand people as actual individuals, and those are generally their friends or people they do business with.
Everyone else is fungible. Talk to them about a million people, or even ten million people, and that's about the amount of people they can conceive there should be in the world for them to remain comfortable.
They are not concerned about the billion + others, because they honestly don't think those individuals affect them. They live somewhere else, they're someone else's "problem".

ChicagoTeamster

(30 posts)
12. MAGA destroying services geared towards everyone and keeping the money for themselves
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 10:45 AM
10 hrs ago

FEMA directs disaster response and has oversight of state and regional fire and rescue and recovery organizations. Without FEMA, these organizations will each have to hire additional people for outreach and coordination of planning and training. And who will distribute federal funds and supplies? Oh, I guess that's not going to happen.

Torchlight

(5,748 posts)
16. It's response (or lack of) to the Texas floods in July aplty illustrates its new mission statement.
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 12:26 PM
8 hrs ago

Show up only after the worst has happened, make it even worse and point fingers at the victims.

Initech

(106,421 posts)
19. This is what you get for playing favorites with disaster relief money.
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 04:51 PM
4 hrs ago

Fuck Trump and fuck Fox News!

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