• protist@mander.xyz
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    19 hours ago

    FEMA is pretty useful when it functions well. Some of the other stuff, not so much

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      12 hours ago

      FEMA just paid Florida $600 million to ‘reimburse’ them for Alligator Alcatraz while refusing to give $47 million in aid to Colorado after they suffered flooding and wildfires.

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      18 hours ago

      FEMA WAS useful. What good are they if Trump denies emergency declarations on a whim? They’ll just use the funds and manpower to help ICE.

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      18 hours ago

      At least now it will be shutdown for Republican run states as well. My understanding is that it has been doled out politically by the Trump administration.