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Member Day hearing spotlights FEMA reform, paused reimbursements and risk to state recovery
Summary
At a Homeland Security Subcommittee Member Day hearing, Representative Moskowitz warned that FEMA has paused reimbursements and that discussions to remove or break up FEMA could leave states unable to respond to large disasters. Chairman and ranking member agreed to follow up, including potential additional hearings.
Representative Moskowitz told the Homeland Security Subcommittee during a Member Day hearing that FEMA has paused reimbursements and that ongoing internal changes at the Department of Homeland Security risk undermining the agency's ability to coordinate federal disaster response. "FEMA has paused all grants, all of them," Moskowitz said, adding that the agency is conducting "an additional review" that in practice has halted reimbursements to states.
Moskowitz said he has introduced legislation to move FEMA out of the Department of Homeland Security and restore it to the White House, restoring how the agency was arranged before the post‑9/11 reorganization. "We have a bipartisan bicameral bill to try to do that with…
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