Trump wants FEMA gone. But that could be its own kind of disaster.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/kristi-noem-fema-donald-trump-rcna198190

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  1. **From Jarvis DeBerry, opinion editor for MSNBC Daily:**

    It seems safe to assume that President Donald Trump’s aim in getting rid of FEMA is not to find a better way to help people who suffer weather-related catastrophes but to find a way to help as little as it can — if at all. There’s no reason to believe that an administration that at times appears to harbor a simmering resentment for people drawing Social Security would be openhearted toward people suddenly dispossessed by a storm.

    It’s also likely that Trump, as he so often is, is being guided by grievance. “A whistleblower testified that some FEMA employees refused to help people who displayed Trump signs on their properties,” he said in remarks in Fletcher, North Carolina, on Jan. 24 about Hurricane Helene recovery. “That’s not too nice, is it?”

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  2. Let’s see how this is going to work out. It won’t take long because CLIMATE related disasters are here and now no matter how much anyone tries to deny this.

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