Expecting the Worst for FEMA Reform

I’m sharing this blog post the day before we get the long expected Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) council’s report on suggested reforms to the agency.

This opinion piece is expecting the worst, Council Report Likely to Continue President Trump’s Heartless Policies  Those are pretty strong words. I think “heartless” might better describe the administration’s approach to school lunches, foreign aid, medical insurance premiums, tariffs, Voice of America, Ukraine’s territorial integrity, second missile strike on boat survivors in the water [actually a war crime],  Palestinian deaths in Gaza, etc.

I would suggest that other words that “may” (since we have not seen the report coming out of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), be more appropriate could include:

• Shortsighted (staff reductions, eliminating mitigation grants)

• Anti-science (climate change)

• Screwball (moving FEMA to Texas)

• Unworkable (privatizing the National Flood Insurance Program—what will that do to premiums!)

• Setting the agency up for failure [gutting the staff even more, taking away any and all disaster response functions]

• Faking improvements [simply renaming the agency anything but FEMA]

Perhaps tomorrow, I’ll be pleasantly surprised.  Please, please make it so!