Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
🚨 #BREAKING: Just MOMENTS after Donald Trump announced his trip to East Palestine, FEMA reversed their decision and will FINALLY send federal aid!
Coincidence?
7:41 PM · Feb 17, 2023
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FEMA is not really supposed to provide aid for something like this because it is the responsibility of Norfolk Southern.
If FEMA does provide aid they would have to show that Norfolk Southern was not doing so or meeting the need and then the government will sue them for cost recovery.
Mayor Pete should have gone there and told Norfolk Southern to bring a really big check book and start writing. FEMA was never supposed to be a “first responder” agency - they were just a checkbook to come in and reimburse state and local communities in the event of a natural disaster.
This is how government grows and this crap started after Katrina because the left used the “lack of federal response” to hurt Bush so congress fell all over themselves and ballooned FEMA who immediately went about buying semi-trucks and pole building warehouses full of plastic water bottles and blankets that dry rotted as all the new federal employees sat around watching Oprah in brand new leased FEMA offices.
What a waste. State and local municipalities have the necessary resources. FEMA should go back to being a checkbook to help reimburse them and they should contract with Walmart, Home Depot, Lowes, Kirkland, and major trucking lines for first priority to move supplies more cheaply and efficiently in the event of a disaster.
Re: 8 - Unknown. Need to know the time in hh:mm that President Trump announced his trip, then the time in hh:mm that that FEMA reserved their decision.
Sortor did not provide that info, so he’s a lazy headline grabber.
“FEMA reversed their decision and will FINALLY send federal aid!”
I don’t think FEMA is sending financial aid — just a few token employees to assuage the peasants’ pain and outrage. I don’t think they’re going to fall for it.