Michael Loewinger

Florida officials say the money is still likely, but who knows?

Despite that uncertainty and many legal attempts aimed at closing it, Alligator Alcatraz remains open.

And while Governor DeSantis says the conditions are up to standard, the families of migrants being held inside are calling it a concentration camp.

That is the most real FEMA camp ever built.

What do you think it says that FEMA would actually use public funds for the very thing that has been a far-right boogeyman?

I mean, there is something uniquely dystopian about a right-wing government elected on the backs of the anti-government conspiracies that it is now implementing.

Coming up, for the first time, FEMA finds its groove.

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This is On The Media, I'm Michael Loewinger, and you're listening to the first episode of our series, American Emergency, The Movement to Kill FEMA.

In my reporting, I learned that FEMA's Cold War mission to save America from nuclear war was met with a lot of suspicion, and understandably so.

Case in point, when I was digging around in the National Archives, something that caught my eye was a tape curiously labeled FEMA Blues.

It turned out to be a comedy special from a guy named Mark Russell, which aired in 1982.