
President Trump Absolutely Destroys Democrat Rep. Brad Sherman in a Fiery Spat Over FEMA
President Donald Trump dismantled Democrat Representative Brad Sherman’s defense of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), arguing that state governments, not federal bureaucracy, should take matters into their own hands rather than waiting for federal incompetence.
President Trump did not mince words about FEMA’s shortcomings during a press conference on Friday with Los Angeles officials after touring the damage caused by the wildfires.
Pres. Trump:
I do have to say FEMA is a big disappointment. We had it working well. We had great people, but FEMA is not good anymore. What FEMA did in North Carolina. They still haven’t even gone to certain areas. They don’t know what they’re doing. I say, You don’t need FEMA. You need a good state government.When you have a problem in Los Angeles or when you have a problem even in the state California, you have your own, essentially, FEMA. You fix it yourself. You don’t have somebody coming in from a state where they have no idea.
Like Florida, they come in from hurricanes, they have people staying in Alaska, and now they see, Oh, this is very nice. But by the time they get familiar with it, they don’t know anything. The FEMA is a very expensive, in my opinion, mostly failed situation. We had great people. We did some great jobs.
But each state should take care of their problem and get money from the federal government. It would be so much better, so much more efficient. We’re looking at that because we have had, and you’re going to have problems with FEMA, too.
You’ve already had problems with FEMA. FEMA doesn’t even show up. It takes weeks before they even show up. What happens is the state then relies on FEMA, and nobody does anything because FEMA doesn’t show up.
It’s not a good situation, so we’ll make some recommendations on that. But you have to push like hell to get the permits because I’m just hearing things that I don’t like to hear. I think you’re not going to get your permits as fast as people are saying. We have to get them in mayor.
If I can help you at all in that regard, you’ll let me know. But you’re going to have all your federal permits. That’s going to be the easy part, which, by the way, is by far the hardest part.
You know who controls your water is Department of Commerce, and I already have that approval. That’s usually a very long process. The hard part was the federal, but we already have that done.