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JohnnyRingo

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7. Shouldn't FEMA be concentrating on natural disasters ....

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Fri May 9, 2025, 06:42 PM

May 9

Instead of checking the boxes on Trump's enemy list.
Guaranteed, first tornado of the season and it will suddenly become Biden's FEMA.

On edit:
After reading at the link I see the problm now. This is insane!

Richardson was appointed to lead FEMA after Cameron Hamilton, the former acting administrator, was fired Thursday morning, one day after publicly breaking with the Trump administration's expressed intent to eliminate the nation's disaster relief agency.

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