Senators demand FEMA address concerns over data access and staffing cuts
Oregon Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, alongside several colleagues, called on FEMA to address pressing concerns ...
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Hirono, senators press FEMA on disaster victim data, mass firings and funding freezes
US Sen. Mazie Hirono and 10 Senate colleagues are demanding answers from the Federal Emergency Management Agency about ...
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Padilla hopes to increase firefighter pay, create affordable housing for disaster response
Alex Padilla is introducing a package of bills to ... would expand funding from FEMA for firefighting tools that are put in place before a disaster. The bill would allow for FEMA to cover more ...
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Democratic senators ask for details on DOGE access to disaster victims’ data
In a letter Tuesday to acting FEMA Administrator Cameron Hamilton, Sens. Peter Welch (Vt.), Adam Schiff (Calif.) and Alex Padilla (Calif.) asked for details on who has been granted access to ...
Red states could be the biggest victims of Trump’s plan to kill off FEMA
President Donald Trump’s call to dissolve the Federal Emergency Management Agency would upend the emergency management paradigm and make future responses more difficult, experts say. Some of the ...