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Democratic-led states say canceling the BRIC program violates federal law and endangers communities preparing for floods, fires, and other climate disasters.
The Trump administration canceled a program that would have funded upgrades to protect the town from flooding.
FEMA's acting chief and his successor lacked legal authority to dismantle BRIC, its infrastructure resilience program, states ...
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Twenty states are suing the Trump administration over its decision to cancel FEMA’s BRIC program, which funded nearly 2,000 ...
States allege the Trump administration illegally ended FEMA's BRIC program, halting billions in disaster mitigation funding and putting storm-prone communities at risk.
The program, established by a 2000 law, provides grants for a variety of disaster mitigation efforts, including levees to ...
Pennsylvania is part of a coalition of 20 states that announced Wednesday it was suing the Trump administration for shutting ...
FEMA announced in April that it was ending the funding to eliminate “waste, fraud and abuse.” The program saved taxpayers ...
North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson, along with 18 other Attorneys General and one governor, are suing the Federal Emergency Management Administration ...
Uncertainty of future FEMA disaster funding alarms Bay Area emergency planners “It’s important to make sure that everyone understands that these are scary times for us in emergency management.” ...
FEMA did not answer ProPublica’s questions about the missed application deadline or the impact of funding cuts and delays, instead responding with a statement from DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia ...