Trump's push to shrink FEMA

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🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina last year. President Donald Trump promised North Carolinians he wouldn’t forget them. But recently, Trump's FEMA rejected the state's request for extended relief funding.

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0:40.6	I'm Magna Chacrobardi.
0:42.3	On September 26, 2004,
0:46.2	Monica Lavelle hunkered down
0:48.2	in her house in Swana Noah,
0:50.4	western North Carolina.
0:52.5	She thought she knew what was coming.
0:55.4	So the night that Hurricane Helene came in, I remember, you know, the power went out,
1:00.4	being a season, a hurricane person from Florida, like, I definitely kind of just went into
1:07.9	hurricane mode, you know, got the candles lit and opened up a book and just kind of
1:13.4	just went through it, right? I had no idea what was happening. All it was here in the house was
1:21.0	rain and wind. I kept getting all these emergency alerts on my phone. You know, those main
1:26.4	emergency alerts that are really annoying sounds.
1:28.9	I probably got the third or fourth one around 6 o'clock in the morning.
1:32.5	And that one was different than the other emergency alerts.
1:36.6	It said the river is rising.
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