"In a government survey, state and local officials said they were overworked, underpaid and underappreciated."
"For months, President Donald Trump threatened to dismantle the Federal Emergency Management Agency, arguing that it is “extremely expensive” and that emergency management should be left to the states.
“When you have a tornado or a hurricane or you have a problem of any kind, in a state, that’s what you have governors for,” he said in June. “They’re supposed to fix those problems, and it’s much more local and they’ll develop a system, and it will be a great system.”
Emergency management experts warned that suddenly shutting off the funding and resources FEMA provides to local and state agencies was literally a recipe for disaster. Now a new study from the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory provides comprehensive data to back those assertions up.
Even before Trump and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem began to slow or stop federal funding for emergency management, many smaller agencies at the state level and below were already struggling to fulfill core functions, the survey shows."
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