'We’re not a shipping clerk,” the President Trump said last week. But in times of national crisis, that's exactly what the federal government needs to be.
Workers in the Brooklyn Navy Yard manufacturing Personal Protective Equipment to supply the New York's health care workers and hospitals on March 26, 2020.
As the death toll increases, the bumbling response in the early weeks of the crisis will look worse and worse. But it’s not too late to learn from what happened almost 15 years ago in New Orleans.“You know, we’re not a shipping clerk,” Trump said last week, criticizing appeals from governors for crucial medical supplies. In some sense, though, that’s exactly what the federal government needs to be right now.
Under Bush’s predecessor Bill Clinton, FEMA had been given the clout to respond effectively to disasters, really for the first time since its creation under Jimmy Carter. But Bush downsized the agency and turned its leadership into a patronage post. Post 9/11, it was folded into the newly created Department of Homeland Security, where its core mission — mobilizing diverse government departments with White House backing — became unworkable in a big crisis.
The White House is the one American institution that commands resources and clout on a national scale, across state and international lines, and in both the public and private sectors. Put simply, a call from FEMA, or the CDC Director, or from a governor or mayor, won’t work like a call from the White House. Bush could have gotten those buses running in short order had anyone put him on the case.
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