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We're a federal government; we're not a national government. Disasters are local. Through state constitutions, the governors are the primary incident commanders for the entire state response in support of that. And the role of the federal government is to support the states when the disaster exceeds their capabilities. And when it's this bad, we work as one team. But we are in support of the governors, as they are in support of the local officials. It's a federal system of government.
FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, quoted (
here)
In response to the idea that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) should be abolished & its tasks "returned" to the states
