We should take the president at his word that FEMA needs desperate reform, because it does. Margaret. When I went to North Carolina as VP elect, but before we were sworn in, people would talk about how FEMA would get resources, food, medicine, water to a warehouse, but then would have no plan to get it from the warehouse to the people in the mountains. who were literally starving and thirsting to death. We can do so much better. And under Donald Trump's leadership, we will. But they work with the state and local officials. (08:35–08:44)
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Asserts that FEMA has failed to effectively distribute resources from warehouses to people in need in mountainous areas.
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