Source: The American Prospect
by Gabrielle Gurley
“[Former FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate talks about the agency’s budget and what the agency does and doesn’t do.] GG: How do you view the resistance to calling Congress back into session to handle FEMA funding needs? CF: I’ve dealt with this in previous storms like Superstorm Sandy. There were calls for immediate supplemental [funding in 2011]. But in reality, FEMA had enough money that allowed that response to happen and then when the supplemental came out, it was really about rebuilding costs. I would imagine that the bigger problem that FEMA will face is, depending upon how much they end up spending on Milton, that they may have to go back to immediate-needs funding, which stops work on permanent repairs from older disasters.” (10/10/24)
https://prospect.org/environment/2024-10-10-qa-fema-isnt-coming-for-generators/