Valuetainment - March 27, 2025


“Washington Bureaucrats FEAR This” – Kristi Noem's Massive FEMA Shakeup Will RATTLE DC Establishment


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Kristi Noem reveals plan to eliminate FEMA. She wants to send relief to local officials, not the federal government. Who would be against this? And why would they be scared of it? Adam and Rob discuss it.

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00:00:00.000 Unbelievable. She continues, Kristi Noem reveals plan to eliminate FEMA. Rob, do you have that one? I do. So imagine how much problems we've had with FEMA the last few years, right? She announced elimination at Trump's cabinet meeting and she boasted we are in a month of March, the last couple of weeks. Is this the one, Rob? Yes. Go for it.
00:00:18.820 I want to thank the Secretary of Defense and the Navy for all of their help and partnership too. We do operations together because they're obvious, Navy warships are in certain regions, but our cutters are faster and can work together in a partnership that's securing America. And we're going to eliminate FEMA. So we've got a lot to do, but it's all good and we're working hard and we're going to make sure that we're continuing to do exactly what you promised.
00:00:44.820 In a month of March, the last couple of weeks increased our deportations by 50%. We have broken historic records in the amount of drug interdictions that have been brought in. She plans to visit El Salvador, Colombia, Mexico to boost deportations. Noem told CNN in February, I would say yes, get rid of FEMA the way it exists today, calling it a bureaucracy that's picking and choosing winners.
00:01:10.560 Of course, she wants funds for disasters like Hurricane Helen to go through local officials. Instead, she noted the Coast Guard shift saying we've repositioned the fleet to go after the fentanyl crisis and go after the southern border and securing it. Tom, thoughts?
00:01:25.180 So here she is again. So what she said is headlines. Oh, she wants to get rid of FEMA and FEMA is there to rescue you when the hurricane comes. No. Quote, I would say yes, get rid of FEMA the way it exists today.
00:01:39.980 It's the same statement that they made about the Department of Education. The Department of Education wasn't helping K-12 schools. Test scores weren't going up and big grants were being given by the Department of Education to Ivy League schools.
00:01:54.620 How does that help K-12? That doesn't. It's been redirected.
00:01:58.220 FEMA, look at all the stories when Hurricane Helene happened and Western North Carolina that I've mentioned that area like three times today. What happened? We had stories of people saying independent groups, church groups that had actually chartered helicopters were not allowed to do certain things.
00:02:19.580 FEMA is jurisdiction here and we can't have extra aircraft in the air. We got to wait for that. Remember all that?
00:02:25.220 Vinny, remember that? It says FEMA is here. Well, they were doing a terrible job. They were doing a terrible job.
00:02:31.360 And so the governors, she's saying just like, hey, let's send from the Department of Education, let's send the grants for autism support and all these things to the states.
00:02:43.140 Here's your grant to go do good things to enhance what you're already doing in education.
00:02:48.120 What she's saying, hey, look, when you're overrun by a disaster, we want to send the relief to the local officials, the governor and the first responders who can see what everything has happened, not wait for FEMA people to come parachuting in and say, well, I'm in charge here and I'm going to do it.
00:03:09.820 No, she's like, let's get the resources there. I love this move because you're going to see a whole bunch of bureaucracy squeezed out of Washington, D.C.
00:03:18.560 And what's left is the fund the way it should be because hurricanes happen.
00:03:23.260 Tornadoes happen in Oklahoma and hurricanes happen in Florida.
00:03:27.140 Earthquakes and wildfires happen in California, especially if you irresponsibly manage your state and you leave all the tinder out there to burn.
00:03:32.800 So and why shouldn't FEMA send grants to help against this?
00:03:38.400 Who would be against this? Who would who would be frightened of this taking place?
00:03:42.540 I would say that the Washington bureaucrats that have jobs, number one, and all the command and control Democrats who are scared of strong governors. 0.51
00:03:53.720 Because remember, they don't want strong governors. They want the Department of Education to control the outcome.
00:04:00.000 They want all of the federal programs to be in control. That is a tenet of socialism.
00:04:06.240 They don't want the governors to be making decisions for their state that the governors was elected to do.
00:04:11.980 They want to be controlling those governors from Washington.
00:04:15.000 The bureaucrats at the top of this, the Mayorkas, they wouldn't want any of this. 1.00
00:04:20.040 They would say, no, no, no, we're in charge here. We're in charge here.
00:04:22.380 Adam, I just think it's a little play on words, I think, where you have the Republicans like Kristi Noem that planning to eliminate FEMA,
00:04:31.860 where you have the Democratic Party that it's looking to eliminate females. 1.00
00:04:36.380 So whether it's the trans men in women's sports, whether it's the ridiculous stories you hear about tampons in boys bathrooms, 0.95
00:04:44.840 whether it's people like Dylan Mulvaney taking legitimate sponsorships away from women,
00:04:51.180 whether it's literal trans women winning beauty contests, whether it's in Nevada,
00:04:59.140 you also have big balloon-sized women in Alabama winning beauty contests. 1.00
00:05:04.420 Let's just get back to normal and make women great again. 1.00
00:05:08.280 And just to piggyback on FEMA, Tom, which I am all for them because it's been politicized.
00:05:15.020 Do you remember the hurricanes that happened in Florida and the FEMA staffers that were told her team through that text
00:05:20.500 to avoid helping Trump supporter houses that had Trump-supporting stuff on the flag?
00:05:25.460 Even more reason that federal partisan bureaucrats should not be calling that shot. 0.96
00:05:30.320 Bingo. That's FEMA for you. 0.79
00:05:31.940 Don't help the Trump houses. Go help everybody else.
00:05:35.520 Okay. Bye-bye.
00:05:36.700 Instead, Governor DeSantis, what else do you need?
00:05:39.320 I see you're building the bridge back to the island faster than we could.
00:05:42.600 What else do you need, sir?
00:05:43.860 Well, you know, you talk about accountability a lot.
00:05:45.900 If someone does that, they should be fired.
00:05:47.820 And I think that person did get fired.
00:05:50.820 Right? The person who was going around.
00:05:52.620 You would hope so because she blamed it on everybody else.
00:05:55.540 She blamed it up to leadership.
00:05:56.680 But that's the same thing with the FBI.
00:05:58.580 Like, you can't obviously root out everybody, but when it comes to people's lives...
00:06:02.360 No, you're both right.
00:06:03.740 Consequences happened, but it was happening in the first place.
00:06:06.120 She didn't get fired.
00:06:07.280 She, on January 20th of 2025, when the Biden administration left and the Trump administration took over,
00:06:12.600 she stepped down, but she was not fired for that.
00:06:14.660 Okay.
00:06:15.040 And she was...
00:06:15.520 Moments later...
00:06:16.880 What would have happened?
00:06:17.600 She was the head of FEMA? 1.00
00:06:18.340 She knows what would have happened.
00:06:19.740 She knows what would have happened.
00:06:20.900 Okay.
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