The legislation that Senator Lott and I are proposing does three things. It does make FEMA independent again. And it does give the director of FEMA direct authority to report to the president. But it also puts in qualifications and credentials that the high-level officials in FEMA have to meet.
Hillary Clinton: “The legislation that Senator Lott and I are proposing does three things. It does make FEMA independent again. And it…”
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Senator Clinton discusses the proposed legislation aimed at making FEMA independent and improving its leadership.
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I really hope that Donald Trump is watching this, and I really hope he heard that line and I think he’s got to feel like he is in the Tenth Circle of Hell or something because of this litany of everything you’ve done.
But that’s his game because he can’t win a fair fight, and his Republican Party, which has become a cult answering only to him, can’t win a fair fight.
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They can’t win a fair fight, which is why Trump is so obsessed with stealing voter rolls and purging voters and making up ridiculous claims about people not eligible as citizens for voting.





