FEMA Isn’t Ready for Disaster Season, Workers Say

Less than two months before the start of the official hurricane season, the country’s primary response agency faces the country’s uncertain future. Employees who work throughout the FBI tell that the rapid erosion of tools, external partnerships and practices – as well as the threat that is waving on the horizon in employment discounts and exit from senior employees – is bad news for the country as it goes to the summer, even if the agency reaches some extent. Fema employees who spoke to WIRED have given their identity because they are not allowed to speak to the press.

The agency has not seen “huge comprehensive changes yet, but it doesn’t require much nail a [disaster] “We have been prepared for a really bad situation,” says one of the employees.

Fema was founded in 1979 as an independent agency by an executive order signed by president Jimmy Carter; After September 11, it was transferred under the Ministry of Internal Security. In recent years, expensive disasters such as hurricanes Ian, Eda and Hylene, as well as Covid-19, have caused the agency’s improvisation.

The agency has always been a favorite target for conspiracy theorists. But last year, after Hurricane Helen tore parts of North Carolina, Donald Trump, by right -wing influencers, was burning the wrong information about the agency’s response to the storm, which Polisi Politi put on Fema, which leads to his second presidency.

During his first week in his post, Trump signed an executive order that creates a FEMA’s previous disaster council and assesses its current ability to respond to events, with something criticizing the “agency’s effectiveness, priorities and efficiency.” In late March, Minister of Internal Security Christie said publicly at the cabinet meeting that the Ministry of National Security “eliminated Fema”. A day later, according to a Politico and Washington Post report, Noem has developed a plan to reduce the agency to the immediate disaster response by October and transfer it under the White House.

Unlike the previous administration, unprepared, unprepared and insufficient to natural disasters such as Hurricane Helen, the Trump administration is obligated to make sure the Americans implement [sic] By emergency situations, you will get the assistance they need in a fast and effective way, “Jeff Harbo, assistant official of the Wire Foreign Affairs Office, will remain in an email:” All operating and preparedness requirements will remain without interruption in close coordination with local and state officials before the Hurricane season 2025. Emergency management is the best when the local and state authorities lead it. “

Exactly who is in the review council appointed by the White House – unlike Nayyim and Defense Minister Beit Higseth, the Eucharist designated by the executive order – raises a mystery; Some legislators claim that they were exploited to the service, but a general list of official members has not been published. Although the executive order for the month of January requires the council to meet by April 24, the only procedure for the council seems to be a request for public comment “to gain an understanding [the public’s] Experience with Fema during disasters. “At the meeting in late March, CNN reported that Nayyim and other officials discussed the possibility of canceling the executive order that completely established the council.