As private organizations work around the clock to help Americans in distress, the government should be doing the same. The response from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to these evolving situations on the ground calls into question how the agency has prioritized its funding over the last four years.
The Heritage Foundation’s emergency response experts are calling out the Biden-Harris administration’s clearly erroneous priorities and mismanagement before and after the worst natural disaster since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
As the details emerge, we hope to be able to soon support a comprehensive solution to their procedures that reorients FEMA to its original mission: helping taxpaying Americans prepare for and cope with hurricanes, fires, and floods.
It’s no surprise that members of Congress often take advantage of the need to respond to disasters through emergency funding bills that include all sorts of other, non-related, political in nature, and unpopular funding agendas.
It’s a manipulative tactic to leverage an emergency disaster relief funding bill meant to help those in immediate distress to force through ulterior political agendas – in this case, likely during a lame-duck session.
Heritage Action will be watching to make sure that members of Congress do not take advantage of the emergency and that any funding bill is strictly for disaster relief for Americans.
