Michael Loewinger
speaker
1,796 appearances
17 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3d ago
Michael Loewinger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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People are waking up in droves to the FEMA camps.
We could see the next Katrina level disaster based on the stripping away of FEMA that we have seen.
Can the agency survive the stories that have been told about it?
And can we survive without FEMA?
Whenever there's a disaster, the first thing people say is, where's FEMA?
On this week's on the media from WNYC coming up right after this.
And I'm Michael Oinger.
We're in the middle of hurricane season, so we thought it would be a good time to re-air the first episode of our American Emergency series, all about what the government should do when disaster strikes.
At the beginning of his second term, amid all the chaos of the incoming administration, President Trump made his first trip to North Carolina.
before he got on Air Force One, Trump called a press conference on the tarmac and casually dropped this bomb.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, the agency that stands between America and climate destruction.
I think frankly FEMA's not good.
The agency that helps people rebuild after they've lost everything.
The agency that, while he was rambling, was providing aid to Californians suffering through the historic LA wildfires, as well as Helene survivors right there in North Carolina.
It seemed like with a snap of his fingers, the president would be happy to see FEMA vanish.
I learned that employees at FEMA broke down in tears when they heard the news.
Some replayed the president's speech over and over.
Anxious members of Congress spent the day calling into the agency's headquarters with a barrage of questions.
Is the president serious?
What happens when the next hurricane hits?
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