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Environment & Energy

Rhiannon12866

(241,562 posts) Wed Aug 27, 2025, 01:35 AM Wednesday

U.S. underprepared for natural disasters after Trump changes, current and ex-FEMA employees say - CBS News

Nearly 200 current and former FEMA employees warn in an open letter, called the "Katrina Declaration," that the Trump administration has left the country underprepared to respond to natural disasters. Former FEMA Press Secretary Jeremy Edwards, who signed the declaration, joins "The Takeout" to discuss. - Aired on 08/26/2025.

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As the disasters pile up Brenda Wednesday #1

Brenda

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1. As the disasters pile up

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Wed Aug 27, 2025, 07:10 AM

Wednesday

from record floods, record hurricanes, record droughts, record storms, record wildfires and more...

It will be impossible to avoid the new American Hellscape and see that nothing is being rebuilt except the billionaire compounds.

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