FEMA Has Canceled Its 4-Year Strategic Plan Ahead of Hurricane Season

Less than A few weeks before the start of the hurricane season, the Federal Emergency Management Agency withdrew the strategic plan of the main agency, including a document that guides the agency priorities while responding to the catastrophe. A new plan has not yet been placed.

Fema Administrator David Richardson, who was sent to Fema workers on Wednesday, wrote, “The 2022-226 strategic plan is withdrawn here. The strategic plan contains a goal and purpose that does not carry any connection with Fema’s mission.

The four-year plan issued in 2022 under the then-administrator Den Criswell is not a systematic plan for a specific disaster, but a guide document for the purpose and priority of the agency. Ay Plan On Wednesday, an error message was returned to Femar’s website and not live since January 2021, according to The Weback Machine.

Multiple Fema employees have said that the strategic plan was canceled without any other place when they didn’t know about the other time. “We said the huge planner,” an employee said. “Like things like strategic plans have the effect of big flow, even if it is not immediately effective.”

Fema did not immediately respond to any request for the comment.

The goals and objectives for the agency in the plan are listed: “Including equity as the basis of emergency management”, “leading the entire community in climate elasticity” and “promoting and maintaining a prepared feem and ready nation”. Two Fema employees, who were anonymously spoke to the cable because they were not allowed to speak to the press, they surprised that this document had not been withdrawn before due to emphasis EquityThe

For some workers, withdrawing this memory is a small step in the big size attack on the priority of the latest administration. The strategic plan is “initially symbolic”, an employee said. “There is a very real change that has been created at that touch [equity and climate change] It is more important than the document itself. “

However, others are concerned about the overall direction of the agency without these guiding policies.

“This is our guide star,” another worker said. “We use it to fix the agency priority and ways to achieve them. Without it we are Adrift. It is clear that the agency’s steering person Richardson came here to separate it here, a piece of once.”

A Fema employee who said to be anonymous because they are not allowed to talk to the press concerns that withdrawing the strategic plan “will make the agency so disabled that states or tribes themselves have no choice but to take operation and responsibility”.

“Lacking [strategic] Plan has a great impact on preparation, training, practice and capacity for the state and local government, “another Fema employee said.” The step to withdraw the plan is especially deadly as the administration wants to push the states more. “

Trump administration has already tried Press further responsibility for the disaster of the state and local communityThe “I say you don’t need Femar, you need a good state government,” President Donald Trump D After a city fire in January at a press conference in Los Angeles. Fema employee Also anxious The agency has taken several steps to disrupt the encent agency strategies not ready for the upcoming disaster season and to reduce the effects of climate change, including closing a program Drawn as $ 3.6 billion as funds Communities to create elasticity against the future catastrophe. Fema also changed about how it was planned to respond to disaster on the ground The long -term practice of canvassing at home is ending Among the survivors, Wired reports earlier this month.