States Fear Critical Funding From FEMA May Be Drying Up

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Originally published at: States Fear Critical Funding From FEMA May Be Drying Up - TPM – Talking Points Memo

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Upheaval at the nation’s top disaster agency is raising anxiety among state and local emergency managers — and leaving major questions about the whereabouts of billions of federal dollars it pays out…

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Feels like the who thread should just get ported to the Leopards thread

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DHS Barbie is too busy cosplaying Concentration Camp Barbie to do her “real” job of reviewing FEMA grant applications. She doesn’t intend to review any grants, so there’s that.

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Right? Particularly, this guy:

Like other emergency managers across the state, Swindell said he supports cutting FEMA red tape and waste, but “grant funding is a major funding source just to keep the lights on.”

He doesn’t realize that he is considered “waste” according to the Trump regime.

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Our State and Local taxes will increase with great vigor and the the Repubs will claim victory in cutting the Federal debt.
Our tax cuts will be eaten up by tax increases.

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The climate disaster is going to make just about any level of funding kind of irrelevant. Still, not being able to even get a sandwich as you sit in the rubble is gonna suck even more.

Welcome to the dystopian movie you idiots lined up to be extras in.

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It all has to get paid for somehow.

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