Trump Ends Disaster Resilience Program As Officials Weigh FEMA’s Future

Trump officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) are ending a program that provided funds to states and local communities to harden infrastructure against natural disasters, asserting that the program sought to advance the Biden administration’s “political” climate agenda. Nearly $1 billion in unused funds will be returned to the Treasury or reallocated by Congress next fiscal year, the agency says in an April 4 press release announcing plans to terminate the Building Resilient Infrastructure Communities (BRIC) program. The...