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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Brendan Rascius

Trump panel recommends slashing FEMA in half and letting states handle disaster response

A panel appointed by President Donald Trump recommended sweeping changes to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the nation’s primary disaster relief organization.

In a 75-page report released Thursday, the FEMA Review Council called for a substantial reduction in the agency’s workforce and a transfer of its core emergency response obligations away from the federal government and to state and local authorities.

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