By Michael Woyton
Led by a man who has no emergency management background, employees at the Federal Emergency Management Agency sent Congress a letter Monday warning that cuts to the agency could result in “another national catastrophe like Hurricane Katrina.”
The “Katrina Declaration” criticizes the felon-in-chief’s drastic scaling down of FEMA and shifting more disaster response, along with more costs, to the states, the New York Times said.
The employees cite the administration’s “ongoing failure to appoint a qualified FEMA administrator, as required by law,” a lesson learned from Hurricane Katrina.
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“Mr. Trump installed first one and then another acting FEMA administrator who lack experience in emergency management,” the Times said, including David Richardson, the current acting head.
Richardson, you will recall, unnerved FEMA employees in June by saying he didn’t know the United States had a hurricane season. A spokesperson later said Richardson was kidding. Right.
Read more about the FEMA employees’ letter in this free article.
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The convicted felon and adjudicated rapist — release the Epstein files — continues to have his sycophants torture Kilmar Abrego Garcia, all because no one in the administration can or will admit they made a mistake.
Abrego Garcia was taken into ICE custody Monday after he reported to a required immigration check-in, NBC News reported.
He had been reunited with his family last week after spending more than five months in a prison in El Salvador.
Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported in violation of a 2019 court order.
The people in the administration who made the mistake have repeatedly accused the man of being an MS-13 gang member. His lawyers said he illegally came to the U.S. at the age of 16 to escape gang violence.
Read the entire NBC News article here.
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The homicide rate in Chicago, Illinois, is down 33 percent for the first half of 2025, and overall crime complaints are down 14 percent as well, according to an article in the New Republic.
So what is the reason the golfer-in-chief has for saying he is going to deploy National Guard troops in the Windy City?
As in Washington, D.C., where Big Balls got beaten up by a 15-year-old girl, the grifter-in-chief is “trying to demonize places with ‘Democrat’ mayors and governors,” TNR said.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, a Democrat, has already come out swinging, saying on social media that there is “no emergency that warrants the President of the United States federalizing” the state’s National Guard or “sending active-duty military within our own borders.”
Read the full article by the New Republic here.
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People are being mean to grampa — and he thinks they should pay!
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