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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Oliver Milman and Dharna Noor

‘Setting us up for catastrophe’: alarm at Trump attack on federal disaster agency

a man throwing paper towels
Donald Trump hands out paper towels to residents affected by Hurricane Maria in San Juan, Puerto Rico,in 2017. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

Donald Trump has suggested paring back or even dismantling the federal response to major disasters, a move that would cut off aid that has largely helped support Republican-leaning states that voted for him in last year’s US presidential election.

Trump said that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) had “not done their job for the last four years” and that there would be “a whole big discussion very shortly, because I’d rather see the states take care of their own problems”.

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