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Posted on 06/16/2025 6:28:38 AM PDT by V_TWIN
One of the more controversial arms of the government under the administration of former President Joe Biden could soon cease to exist as anyone knew it.
Biden’s successor, President Donald Trump, has made that much abundantly clear.
The embattled Federal Emergency Management Agency is going to be “wound down,” per the president’s orders, as described by Reuters.
FEMA, which has an annual budget of about $30 billion, will start being phased out as its responsibilities get doled out to other departments.
For example, federal disaster aid funds will now be distributed directly from the White House.
Trump was speaking to reporters on Tuesday when he made his intentions for FEMA crystal clear.
“We want to wean off of FEMA and we want to bring it down to the state level,” Trump said, according to The Hill. “We’re moving it back to the state so the governors can handle it.”
The president also claimed that federal aid will be tightening up a bit — though he made sure to note that he thinks states will still appreciate what they receive.
“We’re going to give out less money,” he said. “It’s going to be from the president’s office.”
He added, “As an example, I just gave out $71 million to a certain state. They were looking to do about 120 [million], they were very happy with the $71 million.”
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wholeheartedly supported the president on this endeavor.
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FEMA became The Blob
Of course Leftists were complaining about FEMA already being shut down a few months ago. As if President Trump had closed the doors
Well this is my basement...notice that the upper part of our house is missing.
"Okay, we'll look into it".
Weren’t billions from FEMA’s budget being used to house and support illegal aliens?
It’s amazing how such a screwed up organization was able to make W look so bad. Then it continued under Biden and Trump is exposing it after W turned the other cheek.
“Okay, we’ll look into it”.
Good news! We found your house! Unfortunately it fell on some woman, so we’re going to have to confiscate it.
There is a State FEMA and a Federal FEMA. Both have done such a crap job for all these disasters. It’s time to rewrite the playbook and put all the eggs in the State’s basket.
Our mission was to bring order, transparency, and efficiency to a FEMA operation crippled by dysfunction. What we found was not just inefficiency—it was corruption: theft, favoritism, and rot embedded deep in FEMA’s culture.We documented widespread violations of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and the Anti-Deficiency Act.
FEMA leadership stole contractor-developed intellectual property and inflated performance metrics in a $1.5 billion scheme to mislead Congress.
Unqualified personnel were promoted—not for merit, but for checking the right identity boxes. This was not mismanagement. It was deliberate.
FEMA’s culture was dominated by DEI politics—identity trumped merit, and promotions were rigged. One insider told us: “Straight white men are at the bottom here.” That was not just talk. It was policy...A two-story Pride flag was unfurled in the FEMA Joint Recovery Office
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/femas-woke-disaster-2-billion-fraud-reverse-discrimination/
That kind of money divvied amongst the states,
To train and maintain volunteer rescue/first responder personnel.
Would be 1000’s of available people to help out at any disaster
In every state.
The democrats want the 10th Amendment so bad, they’re going to get it in spades. Catastrophe response is now on the states and local authorities. The U.S. government is broke.
i love this, just in time for hurricane seasons
those disaster-prone states can all go take a hike, they should get ZERO help from the big government.
IMO-—THE BREAKING POINT IS AIR DROPPING ELECTRIC CHAIN SAWS INTO N CAROLINA AFTER THE HURRICANE...
THERE WAS NO POWER
ELECTRIC CHAIN SAWS CANNOT HANDLE TREES-—ONLY SMALLER BRANCHES
I KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT. USED A STIHL CHAIN SAW TO CLEAN UP 5 ACRES OF DEAD/DYING/OVERGROWN LAND. USED UP 7 CHAINS THAT CANNOT BE SHARPENED AGAIN-—THEY ARE NOW OFFICIALLY “TROPHIES”. AM ON GALLON #13 of CHAIN OIL.
COMPLETELY BRAIN DEAD ON THE PART OF FEMA.
ALSO-—”CHECKS FOR $750.”
CASHED WHERE-—TO BUY WHAT???
They may have to raise taxes to have a "rainy day" $$$ available.
The problem is that you have states like Louisiana which is well-known for their corruption.
Then they'll blame it all on the Feds for "not helping".
Reduced FEMA or whatever you want to call it should be designated for major national disasters that cross state lines, nuke hits, etc. Hurricanes, tornados? States should handle those. It’s has gotten way out of hand.
I believe we have real major disasters to come in this country and I wonder if FEMA as currently designed is even prepared for it.
Yes. All too easy for state bureaucrats to try and pass off blame to the Feds. Have governance and accountability as close to the people as possible.
Good. FEMA is just another lefty slush fund.
lol i don’t care about those blue states, they can all get bent.
if they had voted for trump... well... they’re still not going to get any FEMA money. suckers.
Yeah, they’ll look into why you hadn’t been paying property tax on the new in ground pool.
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