Trump’s pick to head FEMA, has been a total ‘no show’ after the Texas floods, where over 2/3 of th calls to FEMA, for assistance, have gone unanswered.

 David Richardson has no emergency management experience, which is unusual for the head of FEMA. The federal law enacted after Hurricane Katrina requires Senate-approved FEMA administrators to have “a demonstrated ability in and knowledge of emergency management.”

Richardson sparked controversy on his second day on the job, telling FEMA employees in a virtual meeting, “Don’t get in my way,” according to a leaked recording of the conversation. “I will run right over you.”

Richardson replaced Hamilton, a Trump appointee who was fired after telling a congressional committee FEMA shouldn’t be eliminated, in an apparent contradiction of Trump’s repeated vows to abolish the agency.

Trump gave no contingency plans for disaster victims.

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