FEMA officials are in the hot seat after utterly failing at their mission of disaster relief.
A day of reckoning is coming for the embattled agency.
And FEMA officials heard one prediction from Ron DeSantis that was bad news.
Ron DeSantis says Florida could do a better job than FEMA
The Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) has been under fire over the agency’s response to Hurricanes Helene and Milton last fall.
Storm victims in western North Carolina and elsewhere noted that FEMA was nowhere to be found when charities and private citizens stepped up to help them.
The Biden administration announced the agency was out of money after it spent billions helping illegal aliens.
To add insult to injury, a whistleblower said FEMA supervisors were ordering disaster relief workers in Florida to skip the homes of storm victims who showed support for President Donald Trump.
FEMA is an inefficient big government agency that has failed at its primary mission of disaster relief.
That is why Trump has proposed a sweeping overhaul of the agency.
He suggested that states could do a better job of managing disaster relief than FEMA with federal money being used to help them out.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has become an expert at emergency management guiding his state through its yearly hurricane season.
He welcomed the opportunity to cut out the middleman in disaster relief during an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham.
“So if you just eliminated the FEMA bureaucracy, and when these disasters happen, you said we are going to block grant a certain amount of money to the states and let us administer it, you could give me 75 cents on the dollar, and that money will go further to help my people than running it through this cumbersome bureaucracy of FEMA,” DeSantis explained. “So, yes, we could administer it better. We would be able to do it far cheaper than FEMA does.”
FEMA has become an obstacle to the federal government getting help to the victims of natural disasters.
FEMA’s bureaucracy has made it dead weight
DeSantis noted that Florida did most of the hard work preparing for hurricanes at the state and local levels.
“It’s interesting,” DeSantis stated. “When these storms happen, we do the prep at the state and local level, we do the response search and rescue, help with the power restoration, and all the key things, and people are happy with that in Florida.”
The problem for Florida begins when the state must deal with FEMA bureaucrats.
“It’s then when they have to start dealing with FEMA and how that interacts with local government that people just want to pull their hair out,” DeSantis said. “So, I think the president is right: eliminate the bureaucracy, block grant us the money. It will save taxpayer dollars, but it will actually benefit people in need more.”
No state in the country deals with natural disasters as often or prepares for them as much, as Florida.
Ron DeSantis’ vote to dump FEMA and empower the states should carry weight with Washington, D.C.
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