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Donald Trump has wrapped up his tour of central Texas, where he met with state officials and those affected by last week\u2019s devastating floods. Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic<\/em> joined to discuss the role of federal agencies and emergency disaster response under the second Trump administration.<\/p>\n What presidents from Bill Clinton on have frequently done in response to emergency disasters is \u201cfind ways to connect with people on the ground\u201d and \u201cshow that they\u2019re not only going to bring resources from the federal government, but they understand their plight,\u201d Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times<\/em>, said last night. \u201cAnd that\u2019s just not where Trump is. He is sometimes very good at mobilizing resources, but he is not good, I think, at connecting with people who are in pain.\u201d<\/p>\n Although the president \u201cwas more empathetic than we\u2019ve seen him in the past,\u201d Tarini Parti, a White House reporter at The<\/em> Wall Street Journal<\/em>, added, he was still looking to \u201ctout his administration\u2019s response.\u201d Unlike other administrations, she continued, Trump has chosen to scale back his federal response, instead relying on state and local officials.<\/p>\n Joining Ashley Parker, a guest moderator and a staff writer at The Atlantic<\/em>, to discuss this and more: Zolan Kanno-Youngs, a White House correspondent for The New York Times<\/em>; Tarini Parti, a White House reporter at The Wall Street Journal<\/em>; Nancy Youssef, a staff writer at The Atlantic<\/em>; and Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n Watch the full episode here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Donald Trump has wrapped up his tour of central Texas, where he met with state officials and those affected by last week\u2019s devastating floods. Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic joined to discuss the role of federal agencies and emergency disaster response under the second Trump administration. What presidents from Bill Clinton on have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[596,319,2284,2485,81],"class_list":{"0":"post-10598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-issues","8":"tag-disaster","9":"tag-federal","10":"tag-future","11":"tag-response","12":"tag-trump"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}