🌪️Homeland Security council targets FEMA abolition under Stafford Act review

Trump's push to eliminate FEMA removes the coordinated national disaster response capability developed after Hurricane Katrina revealed state-level inadequacies. States cannot replicate federal logistics, communications, and resource coordination systems that manage multi-state disasters, ensuring future hurricanes, earthquakes, and wildfires overwhelm local response capacity completely.

Wealthy states can afford emergency management systems while poor states face catastrophic disasters without adequate resources. FEMA's elimination creates a patchwork disaster response system where survival depends on state wealth rather than federal emergency management principles, abandoning equal protection for American citizens facing natural disasters.

FEMA's Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program funded flood mitigation, wildfire prevention, and hurricane preparedness projects that reduce future disaster costs. The elimination occurs when climate change increases disaster frequency and intensity, guaranteeing more expensive emergency responses and higher death tolls from preventable catastrophes.

Private insurers withdraw from hurricane, earthquake, and wildfire coverage when federal reinsurance and disaster assistance programs end. Homeowners face unaffordable insurance premiums or complete coverage unavailability in disaster-prone areas, creating housing market collapse and economic devastation in vulnerable regions nationwide.