FEMA funding and the disaster response.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Last Wednesday, Hurricane Milton made landfall in Florida as a Category 3 storm, knocking out power to 3.2 million people and killing at least eight. Two weeks earlier, Hurricane Helene ravaged the Southeast, killing more than 250 people and resulting in widespread devastation. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which coordinates the federal response to disasters that exceed the capabilities of local and state authorities, has become the target of criticism for its response to these storms — particularly from conservative commentators — pertaining to how it allocates resources, its responsiveness, and its funding.
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| 1:02.6 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, |
| 1:08.8 | this is Tangle. Good morning. Good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, the place we get views from across the political spectrum, |
| 1:29.7 | some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 1:34.9 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we're going to be talking about a debate around FEMA funding and specifically what's happened before, during, and after Hurricane |
| 1:41.2 | Helene in North Carolina and across the southeast. |
| 1:45.6 | Obviously, we covered this story a couple weeks ago, but I think it's really important to keep our focus here as the relief |
| 1:51.3 | effort is, you know, underway. We're witnessing it happen. And there's now a bit of a, you know, |
| 1:57.2 | funding conversation and a FEMA conversation. Where should we be spending our money? What should we |
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