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			Donald Trump is screwing up his Hurricane Harvey response in ways that only he could					</h1>
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</script></div><br style="clear: both; display: block; float: none;"><p>It’s official: Donald Trump has screwed up his response to Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath just as thoroughly as one might have expected. His federal response has been so lacking that people in Houston are resorting to using their own private boats to rescue each other from the flooding (<b><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/27/us/harvey-landfall/index.html" target="_blank">link</a></b>). But Trump is also screwing this up in other ways that only he could.</p><div class="palm-after-first-paragraph" style="float: left; " id="palm-1821316578"><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- PalmerReport336-block2 --><ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:336px;height:280px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-0060505742272494" data-ad-slot="8294580504"></ins>
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</script></div><br style="clear: both; display: block; float: none;"><p>George W. Bush screwed up his response to Hurricane Katrina because he had put his personal cronies into key government positions who lacked the competence to deal with the aftermath. But Donald Trump has done something even worse: he’s failed to staff the government at all. He finally got around to appointing a FEMA Director in June, after having gone five months without filling the position. But Trump’s real problem is that he’s failed to staff the federal government in general, with more than eighty percent of appointed positions still vacant, and so FEMA is likely just as much of an understaffed shell as any other federal agency in the Trump era. But it gets worse.</p>
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