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The truth about how Kristi Noem delayed the FEMA emergency response to the Texas floods....self-imposed budget limits by the incompetent deranged puppy murderer Noem.
Noem, in her infinite wisdom, decided that she has to personally approve EVERY purchase over $100,000......which is basically EVERY ******* purchase during a natural disaster.
From the Washington Post. --
Two days before torrential rains turned the Guadalupe River into a raging flood, a veteran official with the Federal Emergency Management Agency told The Washington Post that one of the main concerns for this disaster season was the agency’s ability to quickly deploy specialized search and rescue teams. The Trump administration’s new rules mean disaster specialists can no longer “make decisions” on their own.
The official then watched it happen in real time in Texas.
Deployments of critical resources, such as tactical and specialized search and rescue teams, were delayed as a result of a budget restriction requiring Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem to approve every purchase, contract and grant over $100,000, according to a dozen current and former FEMA employees who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak with the media.
When rapidly responding to billion-dollar disasters, that “is basically everything,” said one current official.
Other efforts by the administration to constrain spending have hampered FEMA’s operations, officials said, which is likely to make it harder for the agency to be proactive during what is predicted to be a busy disaster season.
Multiple former officials and current employees say that several contracts with companies that provide crucial services for disaster response have run out or are about to lapse and have not yet been extended. And the agency has created work-arounds to get money out the door more quickly, according to documents reviewed by The Post.
DHS assistant secretary for public affairs Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement that the department had decentralized some of FEMA’s functions, but that these changes had not undermined its disaster response.
The delay in deploying search and rescue teams was first reported by CNN.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott submitted his formal request for federal disaster assistance on Saturday evening, officials said. President Donald Trump signed the disaster declaration the next day. But it took an unusual amount of time for that help to arrive in Texas, the officials said.
After FEMA received approval from DHS on Monday afternoon, three search and rescue crews and task forces were deployed to the region, arriving there Tuesday, according to agency officials and documents.
“We honestly have our hands tied on a lot,” one official said. “We couldn’t move on those requests due to the $100,000 restriction.”
As a result of the spending limit, the agency had to launch a “tiger” data team to create a new disaster application that will enable them to work with the restriction and process requests more quickly, according to an email seen by The Post.
Noem, in her infinite wisdom, decided that she has to personally approve EVERY purchase over $100,000......which is basically EVERY ******* purchase during a natural disaster.
From the Washington Post. --
Two days before torrential rains turned the Guadalupe River into a raging flood, a veteran official with the Federal Emergency Management Agency told The Washington Post that one of the main concerns for this disaster season was the agency’s ability to quickly deploy specialized search and rescue teams. The Trump administration’s new rules mean disaster specialists can no longer “make decisions” on their own.
The official then watched it happen in real time in Texas.
Deployments of critical resources, such as tactical and specialized search and rescue teams, were delayed as a result of a budget restriction requiring Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem to approve every purchase, contract and grant over $100,000, according to a dozen current and former FEMA employees who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak with the media.
When rapidly responding to billion-dollar disasters, that “is basically everything,” said one current official.
Other efforts by the administration to constrain spending have hampered FEMA’s operations, officials said, which is likely to make it harder for the agency to be proactive during what is predicted to be a busy disaster season.
Multiple former officials and current employees say that several contracts with companies that provide crucial services for disaster response have run out or are about to lapse and have not yet been extended. And the agency has created work-arounds to get money out the door more quickly, according to documents reviewed by The Post.
DHS assistant secretary for public affairs Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement that the department had decentralized some of FEMA’s functions, but that these changes had not undermined its disaster response.
The delay in deploying search and rescue teams was first reported by CNN.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott submitted his formal request for federal disaster assistance on Saturday evening, officials said. President Donald Trump signed the disaster declaration the next day. But it took an unusual amount of time for that help to arrive in Texas, the officials said.
After FEMA received approval from DHS on Monday afternoon, three search and rescue crews and task forces were deployed to the region, arriving there Tuesday, according to agency officials and documents.
“We honestly have our hands tied on a lot,” one official said. “We couldn’t move on those requests due to the $100,000 restriction.”
As a result of the spending limit, the agency had to launch a “tiger” data team to create a new disaster application that will enable them to work with the restriction and process requests more quickly, according to an email seen by The Post.
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