Fingers crossed, Florida. We are going to need some luck this hurricane season because we’re about to get screwed like never before.
I don’t know where the storms will go, but I’m pretty sure the federal umbrella of help we’ve always relied on will be in tatters.
That’s because the gutting and defunding of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, is one of the many bits of collateral damage to the Trump administration’s dogged efforts to heap tax-savings windfalls on the very rich.
In case you haven’t been paying attention, Cameron Hamilton, the acting FEMA administrator, was fired recently for saying, “I do not believe it is in the best interest of the American people to eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency.”
That shouldn’t be a controversial statement. But it was, considering that President Donald Trump has said, “I think we’re going to recommend that FEMA goes away.”
