New York leaders are voicing concerns over former President Donald Trump’s proposal to scale back FEMA and shift disaster recovery responsibilities to the states, according to Spectrum News. Trump plans to “phase out” the agency after this year’s hurricane season,

The president said states need to bear the costs of their own recovery and if a state's governor can't do so, "then maybe they shouldn’t be governor.” View Entire Post ›

President Donald Trump’s plan to begin “phasing out” the federal agency that responds to disasters after the 2025 hurricane season is likely to put more responsibilities on states to provide services following increasingly frequent and expensive climate disasters,