February 27, 2025
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The Government Supervisory Authority issues an unprecedented warning to the state of response to the United States disaster
The delivery of disaster aid to the very dangerous list in the government accountability office for the first time with climate -related costs, the Federal Emergency Management Agency delay, Trump management additional cuts
Fire -affected residents meet with Fema officials on January 14, 2025 in Pasadina, California, where it opened a Fema Disaster Restore Center to help home, tenants, companies and non -profit with economic recovery.
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Climatewire | Congressing arm has issued an unprecedented warning about the risks facing federal disasters.
the Government Accountability Office “It limited its ability to provide effective disaster assistance,” said employment levels and other workforce issues at the FBI.
Gao found that the lack of employment that lasted from 2019 to 2022 “continues to grow” and left the agency with the minimum employees when Hurricane Milton Florida hit October, days after Hurricane Helen in the country and large parts of the southeast.
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The warning coincides with President Donald Trump’s threats to close FEMA, and he came two weeks after his administration was launched at least 200 people from the agency.
The report coincides with the first time that the disaster accounting office places the annual “high risk list”, which highlights the fields of federal government, which are “dangerous” to waste, fraud, assault or the need for a shift. In addition to FEMA’s employment problems, the report indicated that “natural disasters have become more expensive and more frequent.”
The government accounting office or shooting at Fema, which was carried out by his administration, did not mention.
Trump, who attacked Fema’s response to Helen’s floods in the western state of North Carolina, made a council to review whether the agency should be dissolved. It is led by the Minister of Internal Security, Christie Nom, and Defense Minister Beit Higseth.
FEMA is only one problem that the accounting office has found with disaster response. Others include the federal response to disasters across more than 30 entities and complex operation for individuals for emergency assistance after a disaster.
“The survivors face many challenges that have received the necessary assistance, including the long and complex applications reviews,” said the government accounting office, anxiously raised anxious for years. “Reforming the federal government’s approach to recovery from disasters and limiting fragmentation can improve the provision of services to disaster survivors.”
Several federal entities provide disaster assistance, including housing, urban development, transportation and small business administration.
The government accounting office urged Congress to establish an independent committee “recommending reforms for the federal government’s approach to recovering from disasters.” It also recommended that Congress enhance HUD disasters so that the money can be distributed more quickly.
The last GAO list includes 38 fields, including the FBI and the potential cost of the federal government of climate change. Both fields were on the list for years.
The White House and Fema did not respond to the suspension requests.
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