Dem Rep Rages That Noem Will Cause FEMA To Fail

May 21, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Lies

“Nothing at FEMA has been made more efficient. In fact, I would tell you that the Secretary of Homeland Security has turned FEMA into the Newark airport, okay? It is going to fail this summer. And so look, there’s no doubt that FEMA needed reform, but what they’ve done at Homeland is they’ve taken something that needed help and they broke it further. Do you know what happens if there’s no FEMA to the state that the speaker represents or Steve Scalise represents? Louisiana goes bankrupt.

“Without FEMA, when there’s a hurricane that comes in from the Gulf of Mexico or the Gulf of America, comes right into Louisiana, they’re bankrupt. Alabama’s bankrupt, Mississippi’s bankrupt. You get an F5, F4 tornado in tornado alley, those states go bankrupt without FEMA. And yet, I don’t see my Republican colleagues calling out the administration on how we’re gonna save FEMA and reform it.

“I don’t think the president is aware of the current condition of FEMA and its potential inability to perform. We may get lucky, and hopefully we do. Hopefully, we don’t have a bad hurricane this season. Hopefully, we don’t have some unforeseen disaster like an earthquake that hasn’t happened since the ’90s. Lord knows we had a one-in-100-year pandemic in the first term of the Trump administration. Hopefully, we don’t have anything like that because they have decimated FEMA in ways that we won’t know until it happens.

“I don’t think the president is aware of the current condition that the secretary has put him and the men and women that work there and the states that are going to go to FEMA and rely on them to help them in their time of need, and those resources are going to come slower.

“Think about it. You don’t get to move your logistics, you don’t move your water, your ice, your power generation, your… any of your stuff. And let me remind you, I did this for a living, for a Republican governor. I worked for Ron DeSantis for two and a half years, took my political hat off, so I’m not giving you partisan coverage—I’m giving you the current state of affairs of an agency that has been absolutely destroyed.” – Rep. Jared Moskowitz.



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