While Trump overhauls FEMA, Mississippi tornado survivors await assistance

[groundloop]

Source: ABC News

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Republican Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves asked the Trump administration for a major disaster declaration on April 1 after 18 tornadoes tore through the state on March 14 and 15, leaving seven people dead and hundreds of homes destroyed or damaged.

The declaration would allow the state to access a wide range of FEMA resources, including financial aid for individuals and for government agencies still removing debris and repairing infrastructure.

“We don’t have a declaration yet. People are still hurting,” said Royce McKee, emergency management director for Walthall County, which includes Tylertown.

Mississippi’s request comes at a time of upheaval for FEMA. The agency's acting administrator, Cameron Hamilton, was recently ousted after he publicly disagreed with proposals to dismantle FEMA, an idea President Donald Trump has floated in calling the agency “very bureaucratic” and “very slow.”

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/trump-overhauls-fema-mississippi-tornado-survivors-await-assistance-121975001

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Walthall County spent $700,000 cleaning up the damage but has no more funds available and has halted cleanup operations until it receives federal help.

[walkingman]

1. Maybe this will affect how they vote going forward?

[Ray Bruns]

7. I sincerely doubt it.

[BoRaGard]

2. "Ha ha. Keep waiting, suckers." - Krasnov (R-Felon/Rapist) and G.O.P. Kronies

gop suckers everyone eventually

[Oopsie Daisy]

3. I would not be surprised if the survivors vote differently in the future.

Assuming they don't leave the state, assuming they can even afford to do so. This is part of the long and continuing and painful "find out" part.

[Du916]

4. I don't want to be unduly callous

But I really don’t give a crap. A tornado landed in Dumbfuckistan? Shocking! I’m truly sorry for the innocents who did not vote for Trump, but the Confederacy overwhelmingly supported that asshole. Too fucking bad for them. Elections have consequences. The State of Mississippi itself should shoulder the costs and burdens of recovery.

[Martin68]

6. If this is what it takes to wake MAGA zombies up, then I'm all for it.

[Martin68]

5. Trump isn't "overhauling" FEMA. He is destroying FEMA.

[Miguelito Loveless]

8. Get with the program

You voted to end FEMA. Cities and states are now on their own.

[travelingthrulife]

9. Unfortunately, this is the only way MAGA learns.

[timms139]

10. They have held

onto the republican polices for years while being feed money from blue states. How they can't see that their hard place in life is because they elect the very ones who fight everything to help people as waste and vote against the democrats who makes what help they do get possible . Their elected leaders vote against help and when it comes they run home and brag about the help and make the voters believe they brought home the bacon .

[Srkdqltr]

11. I thought the southern people take care of each other? They don't need the government.