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Trump Fires Key Officials While Media Focuses On Pope Leo XIV Celebration
Some very controversial executive actions had been undertaken by Donald Trump last Thursday while the media was wide with coverage of...
Trump has disparaged FEMA for years, calling it according to CNN “partisan, inefficient, [and] unnecessary.” This action raised an alarm right away, the approaching hurricane season adding to that feeling. @orionquest06 wondered, “But what’s his reasoning on disbanding an emergency/disaster response agency?” And a couple of answers suggested it was an all-out assault upon public institutions, with @eb.1026 saying, “The point of authoritarianism is to dismantle everything so that you are completely reliant upon him for everything.” By contrast, @statz1964 points out the political pitfalls of abolishing FEMA, which will be vocally opposed in red states that are disaster-prone: “The lack of federal response after a hurricane… would have huge public backlash.”
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