A proposed revamp of the Federal Emergency Management Agency would raise the bar for declaring major natural disasters, making federal relief harder to access, an advocacy group has warned.
In May, the FEMA Review Council — whose members were appointed by President Donald Trump — recommended sweeping changes to the nation’s primary disaster relief agency in a 75-page report. The proposals included cutting what it described as “bureaucratic bloat” and shifting more responsibility for disaster response away from federal officials and to state and local governments.
