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babylonsister

(171,976 posts)
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 07:17 PM Mar 24

Kristi Noem to Trump's Cabinet: I'm 'Going to Eliminate' FEMA


Kristi Noem to Trump’s Cabinet: I’m ‘Going to Eliminate’ FEMA
COME AGAIN?
The agency’s budget and policies have come under fire in MAGA 2.0.
Josh Fiallo
Breaking News Reporter
Published Mar. 24 2025 5:33PM EDT


Homeland security secretary Kristi Noem said in a cabinet meeting Monday she was “going to eliminate” FEMA, the government’s disaster relief agency.

Noem, 53, did not provide any other specifics about her shock announcement—just that she would seek to kill the agency tasked with responding to natural disasters and emergencies.

The announcement came and went quickly in Monday’s meeting, with there being no other discussion about FEMA’s future.

FEMA is part of the Department of Homeland Security, placing the agency in Noem’s purview. She said last month that she would “get rid of FEMA the way it exists today,” but did not take her aspirations as far as she did in Monday’s meeting. She and Donald Trump have suggested that—in FEMA’s place—each state should dictate its own disaster response.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/kristi-noem-to-trumps-cabinet-im-going-to-eliminate-fema/
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1. Individual states...
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 07:23 PM
Mar 24

are not prepared to handle disaster relief, natural or man-made. Nor can they afford to do so.

Buckeyeblue

(5,860 posts)
12. I wasn't trying to be sarcastic. I think this will be a big problem.
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 08:39 PM
Mar 24

But, ironically, many of the people that voted for dear fuck-head will be harmed, plus those who didn't vote for him.

babylonsister

(171,976 posts)
13. I wanted to point out we're not all magas...
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 09:32 PM
Mar 24

I'm not, and am from NY originally. Lots of us here, though not enough, yet.

Docreed2003

(18,132 posts)
5. Has the orange one even addressed the tornados that recently ripped across the Midwest and south?
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 07:27 PM
Mar 24

I know he was busy "winning" his club golf championship that weekend.

tavernier

(13,625 posts)
14. Aw, she adopted a new puppy and named him FEMA,
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 09:37 PM
Mar 24

and now she’s going to poison him and blow him up. It’s a hobby of hers.

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