Less money and federal help being better for a state overwhelmed with disaster make sense to anyone?
Who said less FEMA money?
Just transferred to the states where they can best determine how to use them efficiently for their region.
I think every agency has inefficiency that could be cut to eliminate corruption and waste without hurting service to the public, at leas 5% or 10%.
And DOGE in its first few months demonstrated that well.
Elon Musk went thermonuclear about his researched cuts not all being used in the final legislation passed. But he has to be a realist. If there were 535 Elon Musks in the House and Senate, then it could have passed as he wanted it. I'm sympathetic to the amount of 20 hour days and long work Elon Musk put into researching budget waste, and his frustration that work was glossed over and not used.
But in the real world with with a two party system, and compromise necessary to pass anything, Musk has to understand that Trump and the other Republicans had to negotiate the best deal they could with the narrow margins they had. Now that it has passed, voters should see economic benefit before the mid-term, and be inclined to re-elect Republicans in with larger margins.
And with larger margins. Trump and the Republicans can pass more conservative legislation with the greater reductions DOGE recommended, in future legislation.
Musk should be smart enough to understand that.
