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Disaster Response

FEMA cuts, disaster relief failures, and federal emergency management.

  1. 2025

    6 items
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    The Center Square: Hurricane Helene death toll and damage
    Herald Sun: Hurricane Helene recovery responsibility
    ASFPM: Bipartisan draft bill proposes major FEMA overhaul
    Oct 1

    Shutdown threatens Hurricane Helene recovery as FEMA's Disaster Relief Fund runs low

    FEMA unable to fund new disasters during shutdown

    C
    Monae Johnson
    2 figures
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    FEMA workers warn agency at risk of Hurricane Katrina-type failures
    Current and former FEMA employees protest Trump overhauls to disaster agency
    Aug 25

    180 FEMA veterans warn Trump cuts risk Katrina-level disasters

    Disaster experts predict catastrophic failure from cuts

    David Richardson
    Kristi Noem
    Carey Hamilton
    3 figures
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    Why Texas Hill Country is one of the deadliest places in the US for flash flooding
    Here's Why Texas Hill Country Is a Deadly Flash Flood Alley
    Graphics: Where the Texas floods happened and how high the waters rose
    Jul 23

    Trump cuts 600 weather service staff as hurricane season begins

    DOGE terminated 880 NOAA employees on February 27, 2025 — including nearly 600 National Weather Service staff — forcing at least eight forecast offices to shut down overnight as NOAA predicted an above-normal Atlantic hurricane season

  2. 2017

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  3. 2006

    1 item

  4. 2005

    1 item

  5. 1992

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  6. 1988

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  7. 1979

    1 item
People

Key figures in Disaster Response

14 figures
David Richardson
Acting FEMA Administrator
Kristi Noem
DHS Secretary
Bennie Thompson
U.S. Representative - MS District 2
Bill Clinton
42nd President of the United States
Carey Hamilton
Former FEMA Administrator
Craig Fugate
Former FEMA Administrator
Donald Trump
President of the United States
George H.W. Bush
President
Lawton Chiles
Monae Johnson
House Speaker
Peter Welch
U.S. Representative - VT
Robert Byrd
Robert Stafford
Ronald Reagan
Former U.S. president