FEMA = Failed! Trump Destroys Democrat Rep. Brad Sherman Over FEMA Efficiency!

James Kaufman, World News Report, today, January 25th, 2025. God bless you and yours, no matter where you are in the world. Please subscribe, give us a thumbs up, ring that bell for critical future updates. FEMA equals failed. Trump destroys Democrat Representative Brad Sherman over FEMA's performance. Trump took on Democratic Representative Brad Sherman over the inefficiency of FEMA. President Donald Trump dismantled Democratic Representative Brad Sherman's defense of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, better known as FEMA, arguing that state governments, not bureaucracy, should take matters into their own hands rather than waiting for federal incompetence. President Trump did not mince words about FEMA's shortcomings during a press conference on Friday with Los Angeles officials deterring the damage caused by the wildfires. Let's hope Trump does decide to dismantle FEMA altogether and work with the states after natural disasters. Mr. President, my name is Tracy Park. I represent the people of the Pacific Palisades on the LA City Council. I wanted to thank you for your loyal support to our military, our police officers and especially our firefighters. My top priority going forward is to get these men and women home as soon as possible and open up the pathway to begin their rebuilding process. It was the Army Corps of Engineers who announced last night that it would be 18 months. I'm fully committed to doing my part on the ground with our state agencies and our city and our county partners to speed this up. I just ask for your ongoing partnership with FEMA and the EPA and our other federal agencies to make sure that we have a commitment to cross all layers of government to get these people back home. Thank you, sir. And I do thank you very much. It's well said. I do have to say FEMA is a big disappointment. We had it working well, we had great people, but FEMA's not good anymore. What FEMA did in North Carolina, you know, they still haven't even gone to certain areas. They don't know what they're doing, and I say, You don't need FEMA. You need a good state government. And when you have a problem in Los Angeles or when you have a problem even in the state of California, you have your own, essentially, FEMA. You fix it yourself. You don't have somebody coming in from a state where they have no idea, like Florida. They come in from hurricanes. They have people staying in Alaska. And now they see, oh, this is very nice. But by the time they get familiar with it, they don't know anything. FEMA is a very expensive... In my opinion, mostly failed situation. We had great people, we did some great jobs, but each state should take care of their problem and get money from the federal government. It would be so much better, so much more efficient. So we're looking at that because we have had, and you're going to have problems with FEMA too. You've already had problems with FEMA. FEMA doesn't even show up. It takes weeks before they even show up. And what happens is the state then relies on FEMA, and nobody does it. I think FEMA doesn't show up. So it's not a good situation, so we'll make some recommendations on that. But you have to push like hell to get the permits, because I'm just hearing things that I don't like to hear. I think you're not going to get your permits as fast as... People are saying, we have to get them in marriage. If I can't help you at all in that regard, you'll let me know. But you're going to have all your federal permits. That's going to be the easy part, which, by the way, is by far the hardest part. You know who controls your water is the Department of Commerce, and I already have that approval. And that's usually a very long process, but the hard part was the federal. But we already have that done. So anything I can do, please let me know. Mr. President, if I could just defend FEMA a little bit. They brought thousands of people in. I don't know how they're doing in other states. They're doing a good job for us here. They've got a huge center that's open from 9 in the morning till 8 at night. But also, when you have a disaster this size, you need to be able to deploy thousands of people, which they've been able to do. Now, California, if we did it on our own, maybe we'd have thousands of people. You do. But if Rhode Island has a Palisades disaster, are they then supposed to keep... How many people do you have in California? 36? How many million people do you have? You have 40 million people. You're not going to get a few thousand people? The problem with FEMA is they come from all over the country. They end up in arguments with your people from California because they want to do it a totally different way. And I can live either way, but you haven't gotten very much done with FEMA. And all you have to do is look at North Carolina. It's one of the great disasters of all time. Mr. President, you can't have Rhode Island maintain a staff of thousands and thousands of people waiting to see if they have a disaster. You know who came in and fixed North Carolina or the process? Other states, people from all over the country came. And you have the same thing. You have a lot of people from all over the country. Getting the people is not a problem. Getting the organization is a big problem. FEMA is incompetently run, and it costs about three times more than it should cost. We can spend money on schools instead of giving money to bureaucracy. It takes you so much longer. I thank you so much for helping our people. FEMA has a standard, Brad, and I'm a builder. I was a very good builder. FEMA has a standard that's so slow. They want permit on permit on permit, and then they want permits on top of that. If you use FEMA, you'll be here for a long time. What I'm saying is get the city, get the state to give you immediate 24-hour permits. These people are going to build their own homes. They're going to get them built fast. How many of the people, can I ask you one question? How many of the people? What are people going to do for financing, what are people going to do, how many people can build a percentage-wise like where they don't have to go out and get funds? Some people are just not going to be able to rebuild their home because they have a beautiful home but they don't have cash, right? So what are people looking to do in that case? You're going to have a big percentage, I would assume, Brad, like that, what are they going to do? Go ahead. Mr. President, without your help, they're only going to get $43,000 from the federal government, even if they have a half-million-dollar loss. You know, you did something, Brad, where every insurance company in the country left California. That's why you have no insurance, because you made it so impossible. People that think like you made it so impossible. Well, and... And, Brad, every insurance company, I don't know how people felt my thinking. I've never seen a state. Well, almost nobody has insurance, and they said, what happened? And they said, like, six months ago, they all left. And... Two years ago, they had different, you know, quadrants, but they left. And you have very little insurance here. I mean, I've never seen anything like this. We had a lot of insurance companies pull out, but I have no idea. And the insurance companies actually have been warning you. Now, I'm not a big fan of insurance companies, okay? They have their big drawbacks, too. But the insurance company, I've been reading. I read the papers very well. And, you know, they've been warning California for a long time. They've also been saying, we want water. You don't have water. You know, you're supposed to get fire insurance. And the insurance company goes, you don't have any water in your fire hydrants. So it's a tough situation. I'm not a big fan of insurance companies. I get that. They're pulling on the floor. You lost your insurance company six months ago because the state wouldn't give them what they had to have. And there you have it. Well, you lost your insurance companies because they wouldn't clear the brush and didn't have any water in the. Fire hydrants or the systems, and now you have a, well, a House representative that wants to depend on the federal government to rebuild California when California could do it much more efficiently and quickly themselves, especially after being funded by the U.S. taxpayer. God bless, please share and subscribe, and remember, these representatives that want the federal government involved in everything. There. The problem. Please share, subscribe, and always remember, anything's possible in Bizarro World.