A Maryland town backed Trump's cost-cutting pledge. Now it's a target -- NPR

[erronis]

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/05/nx-s1-5351764/trump-cuts-national-fire-academy-maryland-emmitsburg-fema-federal-spending

Emmitsburg Mayor Frank Davis voted for Donald Trump in hopes he would cut federal spending. Now Davis hopes those cuts don't include the permanent cancellation of classes at the National Fire Academy, which is part of the town's identity and helps drive its economy. Davis is also a chief at Emmitsburg's firehouse, known as the Vigilant Hose Company.
Justin T. Gellerson for NPR

EMMITSBURG, Md. — Frank Davis saw a lot of waste during his decades in the federal government. In November, he voted for Donald Trump to get rid of it. So far, Davis likes a lot of what he has seen.

"I'm probably gonna get shot for this, but he is doing what he said he was going to do," says Davis, who serves as mayor of this town of about 3,000 people in western Maryland, just south of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

In March, the Trump administration suddenly canceled in-person classes at the National Fire Academy here, which trains the United States' firefighters. Not only is the academy a big part of Emmitsburg's identity, but it also helps drive the local economy.

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If the courses aren't restored, Onieal says, Americans will pay.

"We're on a very long, slow path to self-destruction," he says. "Every day that this training is unavailable to the locals is one day closer to a disaster they can't handle or won't know how to handle."

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[dem4decades]

1. He liked when everyone else took the hit but his is too important? Sorry dude, hope

You crash and burn, you wanted this and you liked it till it was your turn in the barrel.

[JPK]

2. FAFO...NT

[Grins]

3. "Frank Davis saw a lot of waste during his decades in the federal government."

Bullshit. I read his bio.

He was a fireman/fire chief his entire federal career, and never once in a position in Washington. If he saw waste, it was in his own backyard.

There is waste in the federal government, but nowhere near what Republicans want you to think. It is impossible to find enough “fraud, waste and abuse” in federal operations to significantly make an impact on spending or deficits.

[erronis]

7. Well said.

[Blues Heron]

4. What pieces of shit these people are. My god we are absolutely infested with these morons.

Why are they so unbelievably dumb? Is it all the shit he eats? That is not a healthy looking guy.

[onethatcares]

9. I wonder

how many times he's pushed himself back from the table and said, "No, a third slice of cake would be too much".

[subterranean]

5. This is part of the "waste" he voted to get rid of.

Perhaps eventually it will dawn on him and the other Trump-voting residents of Emmitsburg that if the National Fire Academy isn't "wasteful spending," maybe a lot of the other things that were cut weren't wasteful either.

[Iris]

6. What a dumb ass

[hatrack]

8. Good, fuck these people, and I hope it hurts for years to come . . .

FUCK THEM.