Trump Forces FEMA to Live in Fantasyland
The White House is courting more disaster by suspending a FEMA requirement that public structures damaged or destroyed by floods be rebuilt to resist future ones to receive relief.
FEMA had to borrow $2 billion to help cover about $10 billion in claims from Hurricanes Helene and Milton.
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Imagine you’re the ruler of a realm that is routinely attacked by dragons, but only in certain neighborhoods whose matchstick buildings get razed to the ground. After every attack, you could tell the people in those neighborhoods to either build stronger, more dragon-resistant buildings or move to a place that’s somehow less infuriating to dragons.
What you probably wouldn’t do is tell those people to just rebuild those matchstick buildings while also demanding that everybody in the kingdom pretend dragons don’t exist and ending all dragon-related research. Unless, that is, you are President Donald Trump.