Biden to FEMA Staff: ‘You Are Reinforcing People’s Faith in Institutions’

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BIDEN: “You’re doing a hell of a job. No, no, no, you really, really are. And I’ve just been up in the other room with, quote, ‘the bosses.’ And, you know, one of the things that I think is so important is that there’s a lot over the last 6, 8, 10 years — there’s been a loss of faith in government along the way; it just keeps eroding. Because they wonder whether or not the institutions work. And you’re coordinating all these institutions. People understand exactly what’s going on. They look on the television — they’re there in the middle of the eye of the storm — and they wonder — they wonder can we make it work, can we coordinate. And you all are doing it. You are reinforcing people’s faith in the institutions that everything — not — that’s not how they think about the institutions, but in ‘Can it work? The government is here to serve me. Is it working?’ And you’re busting your neck, and there are a lot of people out there on the line who are risking their lives.”