Convention of States President Mark Meckler said that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) should not exist and that natural disaster matters should be left up to individual states.
“We really don’t need it and we shouldn’t have it,” Meckler said on the “John Solomon Reports” podcast. “The way that our country was intended to work is, especially around disasters, things are actually based in a particular fixed location [and] local authorities are meant to handle these things.”
Hurricane Helene hit Florida last week as a Category Four storm, and caused disastrous damage in Georgia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. Hurricane Milton also hit Florida this week as a Category Three storm.
FEMA has previously spent approximately $650 million on grants to nonprofits and local authorities that resettle and aid illegal immigrants so far, and has sent employees down to the border to help address the increase in unaccompanied minors that began in 2021, Fox News reported. […]
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