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Mount Pleasant officials are grappling with the impact of significant funding cuts to the Federal Emergency Management Agency ...
The Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program, established under the 2018 Disaster Reform Act, has invested ...
The Flood Insurance Rate Maps used by FEMA are based on antiquated data and obsolete models. As a result, the U.S. government downplays flood risks for homeowners across the country—but ...
The administration’s aversion to FEMA stems partly from misinformation, amplified by the president. He has claimed that the agency intentionally withheld aid to Republican residents in North ...
One FEMA program that both Democrats and Republicans are asking the Trump administration to unfreeze gives grants to local communities to prepare for natural disasters. It’s called Building Resilient ...
Just one day after Morgan County EMA posted a public notice in the local paper about its grant application, FEMA ended the BRIC program as part of the White House’s effort to eliminate “waste ...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is “not ready” for hurricane season, which starts June 1, an internal document warns as President Trump eyes eliminating the department entirely.
It opens with a direct appeal to the administration: “We are writing to urge the Administration to reinstate the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities Grant (BRIC) program within the ...
Chuck Edwards, R-North Carolina, to urge the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and FEMA to reinstate the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program. Early last month ...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s acting chief plans to shift responsibility for disaster recovery to states during the upcoming hurricane season, he said during a staff town hall on ...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency's acting chief plans to shift responsibility for disaster recovery to states during the upcoming hurricane season, he said during a staff town hall on ...