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FEMA plans to cut grants by nearly $1 billion, affecting over half its programs

FEMA intends to reduce grants by nearly a billion dollars, impacting over half of its programs. The suggested reductions will ...
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FEMA proposes $1B in grant cuts impacting fire, EMS and disaster preparedness programs

A proposed federal budget would eliminate funding for over half of FEMA’s emergency and homeland security grant programs, for ...
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Pennsylvania sues Trump’s FEMA over end of grant program that helps states prevent flooding

More than $130 million in federal funds for projects to help Pennsylvania communities prepare for disasters have been canceled.

States, cities face loss of vaccination programs and staff after ‘baffling’ cuts to federal funding

Millions of dollars have been pulled from state and local vaccination programs with no explanation after a review of the ...

Exclusive: ‘A more vulnerable nation’: FEMA memos lay out risks of plan to cut $1B in disaster and security grants

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has proposed cutting nearly $1 billion in grant funding for communities and first ...
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Local leaders say the loss of a FEMA grant program will make it harder to prepare for big storms

The Trump Administration ended the BRIC program even as the nation is experiencing increasingly frequent and wetter storms. The state says $200 million in grants were affected in North Carolina.