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Seriously...with all that FEMA did, what more do you...or ABC...think they should have done?
They could not provide even one example of what they were actually doing and this is one reason why. Trump has gutted FEMA like he gutted our pandemic response team. I feel sorry for New Orleans and Galveston who have 2 Hurricanes heading their way as we speak.
The federal government’s disaster response workforce is often unprepared and underqualified when deployed to regions in need of immediate assistance, according to a new report, which found the employees were often designated as maintaining skills they lacked in reality.
The qualification issues were exacerbated by severe staffing shortfalls at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Government Accountability Office found in a new report. While FEMA eventually deployed nearly 15,000 employees in response to disasters in 2017, the agency was almost 30% below its target workforce levels. More than one-half of the cadres FEMA deployed throughout the country in 2017 reported shortages, which remained in place in 2018.
FEMA Is Deploying Employees Ill-Prepared for Disaster Response, Report Finds - Government Executive