eo complaint (12. 180)

On his first domestic trips returning to office and flanked by Melania in another hat and the evangelist from his inaugural, Trump visiting disaster sites in the Carolinas and southern California pledged to overhaul or eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency, claiming that FEMA had become too cumbersome and bureaucratic and telling states to handle such preternatural disasters on their own. With MAGA-supporting jurisdictions historically benefiting most from government aid and intervention (not just in the wake of of calamity but in general), such a dismantling seems ill-advised, originating from the Project 2025 manifesto for the concept that existed as ad hoc legislation for over two centuries before being formalised as a cohesive response to overwhelming catastrophes under the Carter administration in 1978 and 1979, by executive orders, first responding to the toxic waste dumped in Love Canal near Niagara Falls and the meltdown of Three Mile Island. Additional federal assistance for disaster recovery and mitigation would be contingent on cooperation on the part of the states and transactional, political rather than channel through experts.