Trump signs order to shift disaster preparations from Fema to state and local governments
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Order calls for revising infrastructure policy to better assess risks instead of ‘all-hazards approach’, White House said

Summary

Trump signed an executive order shifting disaster preparedness responsibility from FEMA to state and local governments.

The order calls for reviewing infrastructure policies, creating a National Risk Register, and prioritizing state-led risk reduction.

Critics warn this weakens U.S. disaster readiness, noting Trump’s administration has cut 1,000 FEMA staff and withheld funds from state projects.

Experts fear the order forces states to make costly infrastructure investments without clear federal support, leaving communities more vulnerable to disasters like wildfires and hurricanes.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    If you have one federal agency, you can move it around to deal with whatever is at issue.

    Consolidation itself brings funding benefits too.

    Remember during covid when states were fighting with hospitals, who were fighting other hospitals and other states, for PPE? When it got scarce, fucking surgical masks needed an armed escort and seemingly disappeared from dockyards anyway. This will be your water, your fuel, your air support during the next katrina or paradise fire or Kentucky flood like this year, because agencies will be fighting to keep contracts by scarce providers selling to the highest bidder – all managed by first-timer contractors hired FOR an event but let go in the intervening 3 years.