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GAO adds disaster assistance to high-risk list, urges FEMA to simplify aid and limit scope of federal involvement
Summary
GAO added improving delivery of federal disaster assistance to its 2025 high-risk list and told the committee FEMA is overextended; GAO staff recommended clearer survivor roadmaps, better coordination across agencies, and tighter criteria for federal declarations.
GAO told the House Oversight Committee that it added improving the delivery of federal disaster assistance to its 2025 high-risk list because the system is fragmented, frequently overextended and costly.
"Storms are becoming more frequent and intense," Comptroller General Gene Dodaro said, noting that "in the last 10 years, the federal government's appropriated $500,000,000,000 for disaster assistance" and that FEMA was managing more than 600 disasters, some lingering for years.
The nut graf: GAO said the federal…
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