Jared Moskowitz
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And so this is not what many people thought when we heard about reform and making FEMA faster and shrinking the department to get a focus on response recovery. What the secretary has done right now has been totally counterintuitive. And she's exposed the president. by the way, if I'm being honest.
And so this is not what many people thought when we heard about reform and making FEMA faster and shrinking the department to get a focus on response recovery. What the secretary has done right now has been totally counterintuitive. And she's exposed the president. by the way, if I'm being honest.
And so this is not what many people thought when we heard about reform and making FEMA faster and shrinking the department to get a focus on response recovery. What the secretary has done right now has been totally counterintuitive. And she's exposed the president. by the way, if I'm being honest.
She has exposed the president because we're going to get into the hurricane season and we're going to see FEMA fail in ways that we've never seen before. And the president's going to be like, well, we knew it needed reform. Yeah, but the secretary, Mr. President, has broken FEMA in ways that it's going to expose you in red states if they don't get lucky.
She has exposed the president because we're going to get into the hurricane season and we're going to see FEMA fail in ways that we've never seen before. And the president's going to be like, well, we knew it needed reform. Yeah, but the secretary, Mr. President, has broken FEMA in ways that it's going to expose you in red states if they don't get lucky.
She has exposed the president because we're going to get into the hurricane season and we're going to see FEMA fail in ways that we've never seen before. And the president's going to be like, well, we knew it needed reform. Yeah, but the secretary, Mr. President, has broken FEMA in ways that it's going to expose you in red states if they don't get lucky.
If we don't get lucky in hurricane season and we have a bad hurricane season, right, and we get bad storms, we get an F4 tornado in one of these red states, I mean, the president's going to have a department that doesn't work.
If we don't get lucky in hurricane season and we have a bad hurricane season, right, and we get bad storms, we get an F4 tornado in one of these red states, I mean, the president's going to have a department that doesn't work.
If we don't get lucky in hurricane season and we have a bad hurricane season, right, and we get bad storms, we get an F4 tornado in one of these red states, I mean, the president's going to have a department that doesn't work.
Listen, FEMA's main course, right, is to support the operations locally down at the state and down at the local level. It's always been their deal. Getting the resources down. We want to speed that up. The faster you get resources down, the faster the folks on the ground, the state and local can move. So if FEMA is delaying stuff, and by the way, all grants right now are paused in FEMA.
Listen, FEMA's main course, right, is to support the operations locally down at the state and down at the local level. It's always been their deal. Getting the resources down. We want to speed that up. The faster you get resources down, the faster the folks on the ground, the state and local can move. So if FEMA is delaying stuff, and by the way, all grants right now are paused in FEMA.
Listen, FEMA's main course, right, is to support the operations locally down at the state and down at the local level. It's always been their deal. Getting the resources down. We want to speed that up. The faster you get resources down, the faster the folks on the ground, the state and local can move. So if FEMA is delaying stuff, and by the way, all grants right now are paused in FEMA.
I don't know if you know this. They've paused all grants, things that have previous declarations, previous presidential declarations. And the secretary has no authority in the Stafford Act or in the Homeland Act, which was passed after Katrina. She has no authority to put blanket pauses on these things. In fact, they contemplated that in these acts, and it's strictly prohibited.
I don't know if you know this. They've paused all grants, things that have previous declarations, previous presidential declarations. And the secretary has no authority in the Stafford Act or in the Homeland Act, which was passed after Katrina. She has no authority to put blanket pauses on these things. In fact, they contemplated that in these acts, and it's strictly prohibited.
I don't know if you know this. They've paused all grants, things that have previous declarations, previous presidential declarations. And the secretary has no authority in the Stafford Act or in the Homeland Act, which was passed after Katrina. She has no authority to put blanket pauses on these things. In fact, they contemplated that in these acts, and it's strictly prohibited.
There are criteria which you could do that, and you're supposed to be given due process to appeal that. None of that is going on. And so, yes, Ben, at the end of the day, if these resources come slower, it could mean more deaths, and it could mean towns are going to suffer, people are going to suffer.
There are criteria which you could do that, and you're supposed to be given due process to appeal that. None of that is going on. And so, yes, Ben, at the end of the day, if these resources come slower, it could mean more deaths, and it could mean towns are going to suffer, people are going to suffer.
There are criteria which you could do that, and you're supposed to be given due process to appeal that. None of that is going on. And so, yes, Ben, at the end of the day, if these resources come slower, it could mean more deaths, and it could mean towns are going to suffer, people are going to suffer.
And it's not going to save any money in the long term, because the longer it takes for resources to down, I think the more expensive it gets to do some of these things.
And it's not going to save any money in the long term, because the longer it takes for resources to down, I think the more expensive it gets to do some of these things.