Elijah Schaffer believes that emergency disaster relief should be managed at the state level to ensure efficiency and avoid federal incompetence or political interference.

“I think Trump is being smart here because he's not saying we're going to stop the federal funds to disaster zones what he's pointing out is that FEMA like the the TSA or any of these government agencies is probably like bloated with waste and Corruption”

Brett Keane believes that using states to handle disaster relief instead of a federal agency like FEMA is a better approach to streamlining funds and managing local needs.

“I think that personally I I think that the the federal government should be downsized so if they can streamline getting funds to disaster areas and you don't have to have FEMA to to to be the Arbiter of who does and does not get the fund”