When visiting disaster areas, Trump questions the future of emergency authority






US President Donald Trump questioned emergency aid when visiting two disaster areas in the states of North Carolina and California. In Asheville in the state of North Carolina, who was looking for the hurricane “Helen”, he announced a decree on Friday to “profoundly reform” or “maybe” abolish it. In the Californian west coast metropolis of Los Angeles, he also complained about the Fema.

Trump had already criticized the consequences of the hurricane Harsch in the election campaign and the government of the then President Joe Biden. In an interview by the broadcaster Fox News on Wednesday, he was already thinking loudly about a possible abolition of the Fema.

In Asheville, Trump came together with families affected by the hurricane. “Helen” had caused serious damage in several countries in the southeast of the United States at the end of September and early October and tore more than 200 people to death. Asheville was particularly badly affected, heavy floods washed away houses, streets and bridges.

It was Trump’s first trip since he took office on Monday. Later on Friday he traveled to Los Angeles to get an idea of ​​the major fires that have been angry for around two weeks in the Pacific Palisades district and to find out more about the fire service. The Republican accuses the authorities of the state of California, which was ruled by the Democrats, serious failure in dealing with the fire disaster in the area of ​​the metropolis.

But in view of the enormous destruction of the fires, Trump was mild and assured that Washington was “100 percent” behind those affected. “I don’t think you can imagine how bad it is, how devastating it is until you see it,” he said after a flight about the destroyed areas. “It was not clear to me. I mean, I saw a lot of worse things on TV, but the scale, the size … that’s devastated. It’s incredible.”

His meeting with politicians and firefighters in Los Angeles began – until Trump claimed that California had an “unlimited” water supply. Then he complained in detail about the Fema. The authority is “incompetent and costs about three times more than it should cost,” he said.

Trump had repeatedly stated about the California governor Gavin Newsom in the past few weeks and incorrectly accused him of blocking the diversion of “rain and melting water from the north” in the south of California, which is troubled by dryness. Before visiting Los Angeles, he also threatened to refuse California if the state does not change electoral laws, which according to its information enables migrants without a residence permit. In addition to proof of identity for voters, he wanted “the water being drained off and comes down”.

Trump traveled from Los Angeles to Las Vegas in the state of Nevada. In the gambling metropolis, he wanted to talk primarily about his plans to abolish taxes on drinking money.

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