Project 2025 architect Russell Vought wants to seize the shutdown to further slash spending with mass federal layoffs.
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The state will also get $38 million from ICE for equipment and transportation involved in detaining non-citizens.
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Many families who lost nearly everything to the storm are still slogging through red tape a year later.
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Grassroots climate initiatives are increasingly building in resilience from heat, storms, and the government itself.
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As others languished without FEMA’s help, Noem flew to Florida to tout the $11 million project and meet with the donor.
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“The danger posed to our collective communities … is very real,” said one employee who signed a public letter.
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The administration is illegally retaliating against federal employees for whistleblowing, one advocate said.
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FEMA also still owes North Carolina hundreds of millions in promised recovery funds from last year’s Hurricane Helene.
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As climate disasters increase, the hamstrung agency’s response efforts will be impeded when they’re needed most.
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Trump has previously said that disaster relief should fall to the states and that he hopes to eliminate FEMA altogether.
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The Trump administration’s new rules slowed FEMA’s response to the deadly flooding in Central Texas earlier this month.
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It’s time to return to the kind of bottom-up struggle that helped establish modern public health in the first place.
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