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- politics@lemmy.world
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- politics@lemmy.world
Summary
Trump signed an executive order shifting disaster preparedness responsibility from FEMA to state and local governments.
The order calls for reviewing infrastructure policies, creating a National Risk Register, and prioritizing state-led risk reduction.
Critics warn this weakens U.S. disaster readiness, noting Trump’s administration has cut 1,000 FEMA staff and withheld funds from state projects.
Experts fear the order forces states to make costly infrastructure investments without clear federal support, leaving communities more vulnerable to disasters like wildfires and hurricanes.
Time to find out how fiscal conservatism handles multiple billion dollar disasters in a year without a willingness to fund for them. Guarantee rich white people will get priority disaster recovery and everyone else gets the Superdome treatment.
Which is perfect, because that’s what all the Gulf states are gonna use their devolved FEMA funds to build!
The correlation between Red states and much higher natural disaster incidence is really high. This is gonna go really bad, by design.