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🗓️ 27 March 2025
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At a Trump cabinet meeting, Kristi Noem announces her plan to eliminate FEMA as it exists today—calling it bloated, politicized, and broken. The PBD Podcast breaks down the bold move to return disaster relief power to the states.
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0:00.0 | She continues. |
0:01.6 | Christine Nome reveals plan to eliminate FEMA. |
0:04.6 | Rob, do you have that one? |
0:05.5 | I do. |
0:05.9 | So imagine how much problems we've had with FEMA the last few years, right? |
0:09.1 | She announced a elimination at Trump's cabinet meeting, and she boasted. |
0:14.3 | We are in a month of March the last couple weeks. |
0:17.1 | Is this the one, Rob? |
0:17.9 | Yes. |
0:18.2 | Go forward. |
0:19.8 | I want to thank the Secretary of Defense and the Navy |
0:23.0 | for all of their help and partnerships. We do operations together because their obvious Navy warships are |
0:29.2 | in certain regions, but our cutters are faster and can work together in a partnership that's securing America. |
0:35.4 | So, and we're going to eliminate FEMA. |
0:40.6 | So we've got a lot to do, but it's all good. |
0:44.1 | And we're working hard, and we're going to make sure that we're continuing to do exactly what you promised. |
0:45.2 | In a month of March, the last couple weeks increased our deportations by 50%. |
0:48.9 | We have broken historic records and the amount of drug interdict – How do you pronounce that, right? Interdictions. |
0:57.0 | Seizures. Interdictions that have been brought in. She plans to visit El Salvador, Colombia, |
1:00.9 | Mexico to boost deportations. Noam told CNN in February, I would say yes. Get rid of FEMA the way it |
1:06.7 | exists today. Calling it a bureaucracy that's picking and choosing winners. She wants funds for disasters like Hurricane Helen to go through local officials. |
1:15.4 | Instead, she noted the Coast Guard shift saying we've repositioned the fleet to go after the |
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