department of homeland security which everseas fema and the coast guard an and the head of the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. the president says he will actually leave many mid level jobs unfilled to shrink the bloated government and john tamny, you re okay with that, right? yes, good for president trump here. fema doesn t have any constitutional basis in the first place, but in the bigger sense, with government less there s always more. whenever there s a government shutdown in washington, i want to meet the people who feel they really notice it throughout the country that we have less government. we need to see that we re fine when there s less happening in washington. david: so, e-mack, maybe leave these jobs unfilled? we don t need the state department enjoy for hillary clinton transparency well, maybe we do. we don t need the enjoy for iran oh, maybe we do, hang on. for india, south korea, japan, we need the ambassadors yet to
31.4%. you worked on hurricanes before, you know it s not a question of if, but when there is another extreme weather event, so how are these funds, if they are cut, going to affect the next response? they will have huge impacts for everyone. when you start going through the process and start slashing budgets, i think the new administration has not thought through the impacts that will go through communities. cutting the funds at fema doesn t make sense because it helps folks be better prepared and you re talking had you had and the grants, by eliminating that program, you are literally taking away an opportunity for folks to be able to get back into their homes, to be able to get some stability back into their lives and to begin to be able to move forward.
melbourne, the country s second largest city. security officials arresting a 17-year-old suspected terrorist there. and also finding all three explosive devices. a bomb squad detonating them. i m uma pemmaraju. i ll see you at 2:00 p.m. eastern when i talk to a man who has vast experience in fighting domestic terror. now back to bulls and bears. okay we have mike we have a roof that just flew through the air here. i don t know where it came from. wow. twisters battering the plains this week. dozens injured, homes and businesses flattened. no doubt they re going to need federal emergency funds to recover. but some disaster funds could soon be held back if fema doesn t like the state s plan to combat climate change. now, mike doesn t this strike you as a little bit of blackmail? accept our views on climate change or else? david, this is a tyrannical president using fema aid to force his agenda. two years ago there was a very
they calculated that? guest: no, no, no. i m not we able to talk to any official in fema i am only talking to the representatives that come. neil: so, if you had private flood insurance that means fema doesn t deal with you. so you in a way wait longer. guest: yes. but family holds the flood insurance and they control the national flood, what do you call it, the flood insurance program, the national flood insurance program, and fema runs it. anyone who gets their insurance from travelers or from all- all-state, it goes to fema. they are like an agent for fema. fema holds the insurance, so, when you have flood insurance you have to put bills in that you and fema know the flood insurance will deny, a lot stuff is not covered under flood insurance so you have to wait in this whole process. i only just now got an advance check, six weeks, from my flood
people out of their disasters, really turned to congress to try to help them out of this one. and it came down to the fact that last week, chuck, you remember leaders in both parties were saying that the disaster fund to help people all across the country who have had these terrible calamities and the states they live in was running out of money. might be empty by monday or today. then all of a sudden yesterday fema said that it had $114 million, enough to get it through to the end of the week, which is also the end of the fiscal year. so come october 1st, more money is already scheduled to fill these accounts so they ll be fine. that changed the whole dynamic, and then late in the evening, there was sort of an expected vote, things got delayed, and then there was a lot of deal making and they decided okay, fema doesn t need this instant help. that means we can take off the table the whole contentious issue of trying to provide that extra funding by making cuts in other programs. so it