Friday was the first full day of management David Richardson in Femi, after the agency saw the shake in his forehead earlier this week. But he started his mandate like a head with a batch warning for the Agency.
“I – I’m in FEMA – I’m talking about Fem. I’m here to make the president’s intention for FEMA,” he allegedly told staff in a call across the agency.
He predicted that 20 percent of staff would oppose Trump vision for FEMA, which he pledged into dismantling.
“Encourage, delay, undermining. If you are one of those 20 percent of people and you think that tactics and techniques will help you, I will not, because I will go straight to you,” Richardson said.
“Don’t come across me,” he added. “I know all the tricks.”
FEMA is an agency charged with coordination and execution of the response of the Federal Government on natural disasters and other emergencies, in the range of hurricanes and floods of domestic attacks.
But it has been criticized for a long time due to the lag of response time, inadequate resources and disorganization, especially during large disasters such as 2005 Hurricane Katrinawho are displaced dozens of thousands of inhabitants in Louisiana and kill more than 1,300 people.
Trump replied to such criticism by giving us to fully make up with the phenom and redistributing their functions by individual countries.
“When there is a problem with the state, I think that problem should take care of the state” Trump said in January. “That’s what we have states. They take care of the problems. And the governor can arrange something very quickly, you know?”
During his re-election campaign in 2024, he spread untruths about the Agency, including refusing to offer a relief in the Republican residents in North Carolina, who recently suffered a widespread hurricane helene flood.
From taking in January, Trump followed his plans for the restructuring of the Federal Government, reducing funding and staff with independent entities such as United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Bureau for financial consumer protection (Cfpb).
Trump and his allies have framed a decrease in the need to fight “fraud” and “waste” throughout the government, although he did not offer final evidence of the mistake.
In Femi, 2,000 employees were interrupted by or accepted purchase bids for the submission for the submission. Liability Report of 2023. He pointed out that FEMA had only 5,000 full-time members, as well as a group of reservists and emergency workers who could be invited to the crisis.
To become an administrator of FEMA, it is required undergoing a hearing to confirm the Senate and by voting.
But while these Senate hearings continue for government high-level positions, Trump appointed temporary leaders to manage the organization in the meantime.
Cameron Hamilton, the former seal of the Navy, served in that role because Trump started his second term.
He was a prominent FEM critic during the administration of the former Joe Biden President. But his time like the FEMA Chief came a sudden stop this week, in the phenomenon before he appropriates in the House of Representatives.
At the hearing on Wednesday, the Democratic MP, Rosa Delauro from Connecticut, asked Hamilton about the idea that FEMA could be closed.
Hamilton replied by the measured opposition. “I don’t believe that in the best interests of the American people to eliminate the Federal Agency for Emergency Management,” he said.
He added that ultimately not his decision to carry out and criticize FEMA as part of “excessive separate federal bureaucracy”.
“I am not able to make decisions and influence the results of whether determination should be done as a consequence. It is a conversation that should be between the president of the United States and this management body,” Hamilton said.
But the next day, Hamilton took out his role of the temporary head of the Feed and replaced him by Richardson, a marine veteran.
Critics, including representative Delauri, has blown a switch as an indicative white house that will not tolerate disagreements, even when necessary.
“Trump Administration must explain why (Hamilton) was removed from this position,” Delauro said in the statement. “Integrity and morality should not cost you your job.”
Richardson, meanwhile, continued to set a stricter tone for his seat, with his firm telephone call on Friday. He warned FEM staff to make any action “in our missions” considered taxpayer waste.
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Trump was criticized for denial of assistance requirements, including the national states such as Arkansas, who suffered Tornado during the week 14. March, destroying the neighborhood. More deaths were recorded.
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders – who worked as Trump Press Secretary During the first term – he wrote the president to appeal for his denial of help.
“From 2023, Arkansas experienced disaster, with four allied declarations of disasters and ten disasters. These overlapping events have seriously found the capacity to respond and recover effectively,” Huckabee Sanders wrote.
“Many Arkanzies still live in temporary conditions or repair the damage from previous events, only to re-displaced or hit. The state and its citizens need a need for return, restorations and mitigation of further loss.”
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2025-05-09 16:40:00
