TPM
Back when he was severely conservative during the GOP primaries, did
Mitt Romney say he’d shut down FEMA and have the states take
responsibility for disaster relief? Not quite in one declarative
statement. But he certainly seemed to say that disaster preparedness
and relief should be taken from the federal government and turned over
to the states.
Ryan Grim over at Huffpo just wrote up a passage
from a June GOP primary debate in which Romney seems pretty clearly to
say we should shut FEMA down and send disaster relief as a
responsibility back to the states.
(Less dramatically, though perhaps just as important, this MoJo piece
from August notes that the Ryan budget, which Romney has embraced,
almost certainly requires big cuts in various disaster preparedness and
relief programs.)
He links a video which was uploaded back on September 21st of last
year but seems to have been viewed by virtually no one until tonight.
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