Rep. Chuck Edwards of North Carolina has unveiled the recommendations he delivered to the White House to fix the Federal Emergency Management Agency. It specifically argues against abolishing the agency quickly, which administration officials have said they want to do.
“Western North Carolina cannot afford for recovery to be interrupted by total terminations of critical recovery programs,” the task force’s report says. “The requests made in this report take a meticulous approach to increasing the functionality of disaster response programs, while reducing the size of the federal disaster footprint, without inhibiting recovery.”
The report lays out specific policy proposals to simplify and “pare down” the federal government’s role in disaster relief including creating a universal federal-assistance application between agencies, improving technology at FEMA and reforming grant programs the administration has already terminated.