FEMA; Puerto Rico; Florida All Latest FEMA; Puerto Rico; Florida News Senate Schumer blasts Trump officials: Diverting FEMA money to border ‘backwards and cruel’ by Jordain Carney 08/27/19 7:34 PM ET Administration San Juan mayor rips FEMA for ending Puerto Rico aid by Morgan Gst...
The new Emergency Operations Center in Loíza will be located at the Carlos Escobar López School.Through a collaborative effort for the benefit of the community, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has joined the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico with the municipality of Loíza to begin the ...
has recently announced big plans for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The president called FEMA “a disaster,” andtold reporters“I think we’re going to recommend that FEMA go away,” during a visit to hurricane-ravaged Asheville, North Carolina. If the elimination of the nation’s c...
The audit released Tuesday by the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security examined a program that spent about $642 million to provide emergency lodging for nearly 227,000 victims of hurricanes in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Florida and Texas and wildfires...
“The recovery process of Puerto Rico will need capital and skilled workers to perform all sorts of jobs. These funds come in an important moment because they allow us to increase critical staff that will help us handle the amount of work that needs to be completed as we build a new Puert...
The agency is already under pressure after a grueling hurricane season last year that included Harvey, Irma and Maria. The federal response to Maria in Puerto Rico was widely criticized; President Donald Trump has lashed out over the criticism and suggested without evidence the revised death toll ...
guidance on administrative costs and jobs aids, as well as three iterations each of disaster-specific guidance for Puerto Rico’s 2017 hurricane recovery, and the Virgin Islands. Archived guidance for general Alternative Procedures is available at FEMA, “Archives: Public Assistance Alternative ...
The Trump administration has a mixed record on disaster recovery, earning praise for its response to Hurricane Harvey, which hit Texas in 2017, but receiving widespread criticism for its efforts in Puerto Rico, where 2,975 were killed by Hurricane Maria. ...
Irma has already ravaged several small islands, causing significant damage on the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. “We have to build for our future risk. Our past is not the best indicator of what these risks have been. We’ve seen it time a...
of its individual and public assistance programs, FEMA has abandoned its core mission of emergency management and instead devotes its time and talent to bureaucratic paperwork. We saw thisduring Hurricane Maria in 2017when FEMA’s inability to coordinate led to prolonged suffering in Puerto Rico. ...