On Tuesday night, MSNBC’s The Briefing With Jen Psaki cited FEMA cuts as a main factor for the response to the Texas floods. Psaki still used this narrative despite multiple reports coming out that emergency management and response have been on par with or exceeded expectations.
Psaki let the irony flow with this statement:
Unlike California, Texas is of course a red state with a Republican governor and plenty of Trump supporters. So if Trump was going to help any state, you’d think it would be a state like Texas. And he did sign a major disaster declaration within days of the flood, but what’s unclear right now is how much help FEMA is capable of providing anymore. Even when Trump wants to provide it, because for months now we have seen report after report of people inside FEMA warning that the agency hasn’t been preparing for disasters the way it normally does.
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