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CBS Claims Southern States Are Too Poor, Incompetent To Handle Disaster Recovery Without Feds

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While interviewing Vice President J.D. Vance, CBS moderator Margaret Brennan suggested southern states are too incompetent and poor to recover from natural disasters without federal help from FEMA.

“You know FEMA has specialized expertise that some of these states just don’t have in their arsenal. … How will states who are lower income states — the Mississippis, the Kentuckys, the Alabamas — be able to do this for themselves without federal help?” Brennan asked Vance.

This is rich, coming from a long-time corporate media anchor to Vance — the son of a poor Rust Belt family with Appalachian roots. 

Brennan was asking Vance about President Donald Trump possibly “reforming or getting rid of” FEMA. “Instead of sending emergency responders, he may start to send a percentage of money to states to take care of themselves,” Brennan said, before claiming southern states are not competent to manage the funding themselves. 

“The way that we administer these resources — some of which is coming from the federal level, some of which is coming from the state level — we’ve got to get the bureaucrats out of the way and get the aid to the people who need it most,” Vance said.

“But these are the first responders,” Brennan interrupted.

Vance said while Brennan may “talk about expertise from FEMA,” the agency has “been a disaster” in places like California, Florida, and North Carolina due to “bureaucratic red tape and garbage” keeping resources from “people who need it most.”

“But the states are now going to have to do this themselves?” Brennan asked — as if they couldn’t. 

“The president is trying to encourage us to reform the way that we deliver emergency response,” Vance said. He added that when he visited North Carolina as a vice presidential candidate, “FEMA would get resources — food, medicine, water — to a warehouse but then would have no plan to get it from the warehouse to the people in the mountains who were literally starving and thirsting to death. We can do so much better.”

Following Hurricanes Helene and Milton, the agency bypassed houses with Trump signs and emphasized disaster “equity.” The agency was so incompetent that it left Americans to fend for themselves for weeks, getting aid from private groups like the “Cajun Navy.”

While Brennan suggested southern states are incapable of handling disaster aid themselves, Vance flipped the proposition on its head.

“The FEMA management officials don’t work well enough with state and local officials to get resources to the people who need it,” Vance said. “I am sick of the American people having such low expectations for their government. They should demand more of us because this is the greatest country in the world and that’s what Donald Trump’s leadership promises to bring back.”


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