the Federal Emergency Management Agency It makes major changes to how disasters respond to the Earth this season, including ending federal sclerosis from door to door survivors in disaster areas.
He learned a memorandum reviewed by WIRED, on May 2 and went to the regional FEMA leaders from Cameron Hamilton, a senior official who take the duties of the official, the program offices to “take steps to implement” five “major reforms” for the hurricane season and the upcoming negligence.
According to the first reform, entitled “Giving priority to help survivors in fixed facilities, the memo states that” Fema will stop the absence of leaders from the door to the unaccompanied door, improve access to the needy, and increase cooperation with the capabilities of registration [state, local, tribal, and territorial] Partners and non -profit service providers. “
Fema has Years The employees were published to travel from door to door in disaster areas, Interacting directly With the presence of survivors in their homes to provide an overview of AID FEMA requests and help them register for federal aid. This group of workers is part of a larger cadre often The name Fema “shoes on the ground” in disaster areas.
A Fema worker said that it was finishing from the door to door, which will strongly hinder our ability to reach the vulnerable people. He is allowed to speak to the press.
“Under the leadership of President Trump and Minister Naim, Fema changes how she works and repair her policies to better support disaster survivors and the American people,” said Jeff Harbo, an assistant official at the Foreign Affairs Office. President Trump’s recent executive orders enable countries to respond effectively to natural disasters and provide resources at the community level. “
Todd Devo, Emergency Management Coordinator in the city of Englo, California, and the second vice president of the International Emergency Directors Association, said that in his years of disaster management, he saw the number of survivors who do not get information about recovery or resources without raising awareness from door to door-despite emergency managers who use strategies such as direct correspondents and broadcasting ads, said Todd Devo, California Coordinator, California, and the second vice president of the International Emergency Directors Association.
“The transition from door to door, especially in the resulting areas, to exchange information is very important,” he said. “There is a need for it. Can this be done more efficient?
The evaluation from the door to door became a political point last year during Hurricane Milton, when the agency of those whose violations Alert The conservative news site The Daily Wire told a Florida official to avoid approaching homes with TROMP Yard. Former Fema Director Dean Chriswell He said The House of Representatives Committee for Control and Accountability during the hearing last year that the accident was isolated from one employee, which has been separated since then. The employee, in turn, claimed that it Act From a president, the issue was a pattern of “hostilities” with survivors with Trump’s signs.
Republicans on the Supervisory Committee claimed that they had received information indicating “a large -scale discrimination against individuals who offer the signs of Trump’s campaign to their property” throughout the FEMA. In March, the agency Firing Three other employees after an internal investigation in this case.
“The investigation has not found any evidence that this is a systematic problem, and it is not directed by an agency or field command,” Hamilton wrote at the Professional Liability Office. letter Send to the chief of censorship James Commer.
The controversy of excessive controversy in 2026 for the White House budgetIt was released on May 2, which provokes “Grant Grant programs” and suggests a reduction of $ 646 million of “unstable” FEMA programs.
“Fema was distinguished against the Americans who voted for the president in the wake of recent hurricanes, and their homes are overcome when providing aid. This activity will not be tolerated,” says the budget document. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
There is no mention in the Fema Memorandum of the last investigation or controversy and there is no logic that stipulates the end of the door classification process to the door. Fema has published a classification from door to door in the states that suffer from federal disaster ads that were approved under the Trump administration: Agency press release From March it is mentioned that the teams that go from door to door in West Virginia after severe storms in February.
The memo comes at a turbulent time for the agency as it prepares for the disaster season. In late April, CNN I mentioned That FEMA stands to the loss of about 20 percent of its employees in the acquisitions as part of the discounts related to the so -called government efficiency management in Elon Musk. Last week, politico I mentioned The administration has stopped approving the allocations for the decisive risk reduction program after a few weeks of news that the agency will end one of the largest federal government Climate enhancement programs.
Some other reforms in the memo include directives to the agency “to emphasize the help available from other partners” on federal aid, as well as to emphasize the efforts made to rely on local recovery centers and the state instead of those managed by a federal union, “reducing the need to establish disaster recovery centers in Fema and optimistic support for the state and local fighter.” The memo confirms that the agency intends to “respect the priority of countries, lands and tribal countries in responding to disasters.”
“Our role is to support our partners, not their replacement,” says the memo. “Fema does not act alone.”
Devo said that, like many of the responsibilities that are converted from Fema to the local response, the task of wiping survivors from door to door will now decrease to local and loyal respondents. These groups may be severely compressed to find the budget and the workforce, especially as federal programs and grants continue to reduce.
“California, New York, Massachusetts, Florida, Washington, Oregon, Florida, Texas – will be fine,” he said. “Those younger countries will be – will you be fine?”
