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If we can send missiles overseas, why can't we send money to help us, Arkansas? Now Kentucky got hit this past weekend. My opinion is your priority is your home.
Your priority is your home and the money should be reaching your states. But Donald Trump's FEMA is MIA. And that shouldn't surprise us because Donald Trump has stated and his Homeland Security Secretary, cosplayer, dog killer, Kristi Noem, has also stated that they want to get rid of it. I mean, they've made those statements.
They say they want to push it to the states that are not capable alone of handling these things. And we've seen with over 900 tornadoes that have touched down this year so far and disastrous storms in areas like Kentucky and Illinois and Missouri and Arkansas and Mississippi and elsewhere, FEMA has been slow to react if it's reacted at all.
Also, you have FEMA rejecting supplemental assistance requests or just delaying it in states like Georgia, in North Carolina, across these areas that have been really, really harmed significantly. Now, let me just show you this longer clip that CBS put together of other people who have been impacted in very bad ways by the Trump regime. We're talking about red states, purple state, blue state.
It doesn't matter. We're Americans and FEMA should be working for us. Here, play this clip.
My. Double wide mobile home was located right here. 68 days ago, a deadly tornado in Tylertown, Mississippi leveled Dorothy Yarborough's home. Riding out a tornado in a double wide seems like a very scary experience. It was. It was. It happened so fast.
But the response from the Federal Disaster Agency, FEMA, has been slow. Typically, when a tornado destroys a town, someone like Yarborough applies for federal assistance, the president signs the declaration, and FEMA spends money to recover and rebuild. Yarborough has applied, but after 10 weeks, she's got nothing but a huge pile of debris and this camper. So this was donated by a church.
This was a FEMA, right? Right. No, no, no, not FEMA. Across the country, governors have 21 requests into the White House for emergency or disaster declarations. Two have been denied. The other 19, including Mississippi, are waiting for a decision. President Trump says he wants to get rid of FEMA altogether. Somebody's going to have to help.
Patsy Pittman's family has owned this property for generations. She and her husband repaired their damaged home and farm buildings with their own personal insurance money and most of their life savings, $40,000. We've applied, and that's the last we've heard.
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