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Mark Pocan: “They want to take FEMA, the emergency management arm of…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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Mark Pocan Discusses Impact of Proposed Health Care and Social Program Cuts in Wisconsin Town Hall

Published | Video Starts at 59:59

Why can't we starve? You have to ask governors what they're going to try to do. I don't know what they're going to say. One thing that does concern me is They want to take FEMA, the emergency management arm of federal government, and put it under Homeland Security. We know what Homeland Security's priority is. So then suddenly we're not going to care about natural disasters. I mean, that's a really foolish way of doing it. Pardon? (59:59–1:00:05)

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Asserts that there is a plan to move FEMA under Homeland Security.

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