January 26, 2025
Homeland Security council targets FEMA abolition under Stafford Act review
Trump establishes council to potentially eliminate FEMA, shifts disasters to states
🌪️Disaster Management📜Constitutional Law
Trump established review council January 26, 2025, to potentially eliminate FEMA while ordering states to take primary disaster response responsibility, threatening federal coordination during hurricanes, floods, and emergencies when communities need unified national support.
Trump established review council to potentially eliminate FEMA on January 26, 2025, while ordering states to take primary responsibility for disaster preparedness
FEMA coordinates national disaster response capability developed after Hurricane Katrina revealed state-level inadequacies
States cannot replicate federal logistics, communications, and resource coordination systems for multi-state disasters
Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program funds flood mitigation, wildfire prevention, and hurricane preparedness projects
Private insurers withdraw from hurricane, earthquake, and wildfire coverage when federal reinsurance programs end
Climate change increases disaster frequency and intensity precisely when federal coordination capacity faces elimination
Wealthy states can afford emergency systems while poor states lack resources for catastrophic disaster response
🌪️Disaster Management📜Constitutional Law
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What You Can Do
1
Contact your governor to demand state emergency preparedness funding if FEMA elimination proceeds
2
Join the International Association of Emergency Managers at iaem.com to advocate for federal disaster coordination
3
Support the National Emergency Management Association at nemaweb.org defending federal disaster response
4
Contact your representatives at 202-224-3121 to oppose FEMA elimination during climate change intensification
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Prepare personal emergency plans and supplies as federal disaster response capacity may disappear
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Support local emergency preparedness programs through community volunteer organizations