Thank you for this article. Sorely needed. The public, myself included, benefitted from all the services provided by the federal workforce but failed to appreciate the widespread harm if those services were indiscriminately yanked away - cut down like the red wood trees. The cliche of took it all for granted until it is almost too late.
While I agree that the orange felon's regime is responsible for many disasters in the US, disasters in Texas as mostly homemade. The "everything is bigger and better in Texas" attitude applies to most disasters there, with voters continuing to vote for the continuation of these disasters by continuing to vote against their own interests.
FEMA apparently was hamstrung in part by the directive that Noem personally sign off on all expenditures $100, 000 and up. Whrn disasters occur agencies need to move ASAP, and that means money.
It is frustrating to read that local authorities in Texas had not upgraded warning systems. Pointing that out is not blaming victims.
From what I read, it's thr volume of requests that would be over that $100k - those requests for personnel, materials are often for large sums, and if Noem has to at least skim those before signing off it would be tomr-consuming
Let's not forget Project 25 author (and current head of the Office of Management and Budget) Russell Vought, excerpted here from P25: "We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can't do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so. We want to put them in trauma.”
It seem to me that to help trump achieve his dictatorial dreams, DOGE's indiscriminate and cruel firings of federal employees was the first domino not only to lead the results you've written about here, but also to uproot families, businesses and whole communities. The economic domino falling as each of the fired federal employees lost their income goes on to reverberate in their homes (less money for mortgages / rent, groceries, and health care to name a few) and then in the community as businesses that provide those goods and services start to falter and ultimately fail as the rest of the fallout you've written about happens.
I think this is all coordinated, like a Celtic knot to affect We The People as trump strives to divide and kill us from within so he can be the Vladimir Putin of the USA. IMO it's no coincidence, it's part of P25's grand plan to fulfill trump's vision of him and his crime family holding power from here on out.
Oh, I much appreciated many of our federal government agencies and services and am sickened at the loss and ruination of what the United States was known for in excellence. My country is not supposed to be in the ruins caused by Project 2025, Trump, etc. My life is also threatened by the upcoming health cuts to Medicare and loss of doctors and other medical services. Not to mention the worry over living assistance as I age. This administration does not care about us.
Of course its all true. My concern is that most citizens are not aware of the impacts on them personally, their families and their communities. I hope that every Democratic politician, up and down this line, has the impacts of the Administrations actions firmly in mind and can relate it directly to their constituents, including very specific examples.
Sadly it might take something like a massive Category 5 hurricane hitting close to Mara Lago or a less affluent neighborhood in Florida to get people to vote against MAGA. Especially if they can’t get FEMA in fast enough. Same goes for all these other Gulf Coast states that vote Mega MAGA.
Thank you for this article. Sorely needed. The public, myself included, benefitted from all the services provided by the federal workforce but failed to appreciate the widespread harm if those services were indiscriminately yanked away - cut down like the red wood trees. The cliche of took it all for granted until it is almost too late.
While I agree that the orange felon's regime is responsible for many disasters in the US, disasters in Texas as mostly homemade. The "everything is bigger and better in Texas" attitude applies to most disasters there, with voters continuing to vote for the continuation of these disasters by continuing to vote against their own interests.
May I point out, blaming the victims is inhumane and incorrect.
Children died. People died.
And our ‘government’ did not help.
Where was FEMA?
Where was the National Guard?
Where was our ‘president’??
I note that people crossed the Southern border from Mexico to assist, at great peril to themselves!
Where was our illustrious President?
Hmm I’m guessing Trump was down in his bomb proof bunker under the Whitehouse, watching his big screen and chowing down on cheeseburgers.
FEMA apparently was hamstrung in part by the directive that Noem personally sign off on all expenditures $100, 000 and up. Whrn disasters occur agencies need to move ASAP, and that means money.
It is frustrating to read that local authorities in Texas had not upgraded warning systems. Pointing that out is not blaming victims.
Bitchy (great moniker:)
But why did Noem NOT sign off if that was needed to procure the money for help?
And, why did local authorities NOT upgrade the warning system(s).
These policies and procedures aren’t in my wheelhouse.
From what I read, it's thr volume of requests that would be over that $100k - those requests for personnel, materials are often for large sums, and if Noem has to at least skim those before signing off it would be tomr-consuming
All this...and more, I do believe.
Let's not forget Project 25 author (and current head of the Office of Management and Budget) Russell Vought, excerpted here from P25: "We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can't do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so. We want to put them in trauma.”
It seem to me that to help trump achieve his dictatorial dreams, DOGE's indiscriminate and cruel firings of federal employees was the first domino not only to lead the results you've written about here, but also to uproot families, businesses and whole communities. The economic domino falling as each of the fired federal employees lost their income goes on to reverberate in their homes (less money for mortgages / rent, groceries, and health care to name a few) and then in the community as businesses that provide those goods and services start to falter and ultimately fail as the rest of the fallout you've written about happens.
I think this is all coordinated, like a Celtic knot to affect We The People as trump strives to divide and kill us from within so he can be the Vladimir Putin of the USA. IMO it's no coincidence, it's part of P25's grand plan to fulfill trump's vision of him and his crime family holding power from here on out.
Oh, I much appreciated many of our federal government agencies and services and am sickened at the loss and ruination of what the United States was known for in excellence. My country is not supposed to be in the ruins caused by Project 2025, Trump, etc. My life is also threatened by the upcoming health cuts to Medicare and loss of doctors and other medical services. Not to mention the worry over living assistance as I age. This administration does not care about us.
Of course its all true. My concern is that most citizens are not aware of the impacts on them personally, their families and their communities. I hope that every Democratic politician, up and down this line, has the impacts of the Administrations actions firmly in mind and can relate it directly to their constituents, including very specific examples.
Sadly it might take something like a massive Category 5 hurricane hitting close to Mara Lago or a less affluent neighborhood in Florida to get people to vote against MAGA. Especially if they can’t get FEMA in fast enough. Same goes for all these other Gulf Coast states that vote Mega MAGA.
What is the staggering number of people who have been fired/let go as a result of this administration's actions? How's unemployment going?