FEMA Is Paralyzed

[babylonsister]

https://politicalwire.com/2025/09/29/fema-is-paralyzed/

FEMA Is Paralyzed
September 29, 2025 at 6:46 am EDT By Taegan Goddard

Wall Street Journal: “Many of FEMA’s core functions related to preparing for natural disasters and leading recovery efforts after they strike have ground to a halt as the Trump administration redefines the agency.”

“Crucial contracts and grants haven’t been approved, caught up in layers of new bureaucracy. A wave of senior staff departed the agency when Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency offered buyouts, taking decades of experience with them. Around 400 FEMA employees have been detailed to work at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as that agency rapidly expands. And the administration has started dismantling the agency’s disaster-response infrastructure, which was strengthened in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.”

[Lovie777]

1. USA is paralyzed......

GQP are a disaster can’t run a government assholes.

[wiggs]

13. Agree. Where is MSM analysis of all the damage done? nt

[newdeal2]

2. And when something bad happens as a result

They will blame Biden.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Kinda/Sorta

FEMA will show up if you're a rich donor and you contact Kristi Noem.

[617Blue]

4. "redefines" oh feck off with that.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

5. Rest assured if MaL loses one single shingle.....

Orange Julius will DEMAND compensation at taxpayer's expense.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. maga states are the weakest and need FEMA the most. . . . nt

[MaeScott]

8. It's by design...

….setting us all up for that massive tee shot of chaos

[Old Crank]

9. What?

The Republicans adding layers of bureaucracy?
How can tha be?
Who is getting paid off?

[wiggs]

10. GOP: crickets. nt

[Evolve Dammit]

18. Just an arm of the autocrats. They have no autonomy, and are simply accomplices in a control agenda. nt

[wiggs]

11. What is going on?? Millions could lose housing, millions could lose health coverage, millions could

lose food support, millions could die globally due to USAID cuts...environmental air/water disasters...climate change...likely ethnic cleansing in several arenas.

Yet headlines and editorial pages have yet to put together a comprehensive analysis of the overall consequences...and certainly the GOP is aware yet complicit. Foreign outlets such as the guardian and independent offer much more objective articles. At home...cautious accounts of the latest shooter, Comey, criticism of Harris's book, shutdown, Eric Adams.

The beginning of this happened a while ago...we may be mid-course but still without knowing where we are going.

[haele]

14. Simply this - Rich Folk and MAGA live in bubbles.

They only recognize at most a couple thousand people as actual individuals, and those are generally their friends or people they do business with.
Everyone else is fungible. Talk to them about a million people, or even ten million people, and that's about the amount of people they can conceive there should be in the world for them to remain comfortable.
They are not concerned about the billion + others, because they honestly don't think those individuals affect them. They live somewhere else, they're someone else's "problem".

[ChicagoTeamster]

12. MAGA destroying services geared towards everyone and keeping the money for themselves

FEMA directs disaster response and has oversight of state and regional fire and rescue and recovery organizations. Without FEMA, these organizations will each have to hire additional people for outreach and coordination of planning and training. And who will distribute federal funds and supplies? Oh, I guess that's not going to happen.

[dlk]

15. This is by design

Make no mistake.

[Torchlight]

16. It's response (or lack of) to the Texas floods in July aplty illustrates its new mission statement.

Show up only after the worst has happened, make it even worse and point fingers at the victims.

[EarthFirst]

17. See; the way it works now is that you have to give money to Kristi Noem to be eligible...

https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-fema-florida-naples-sinan-gursoy

[littlemissmartypants]

20. Thanks for sharing this, EarthFirst. I love ProPublica. ❤️

[Initech]

19. This is what you get for playing favorites with disaster relief money.

Fuck Trump and fuck Fox News!