Trump Ends Key Program to Help Communities Prepare

Sunday, April 06, 2025

In a news release Friday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said it was ending the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program.

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FEMA's Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities has made more than $5 billion available since 2020 to help local projects that reduce the impact of disasters. FEMA DOGE spox: "It was more concerned with climate change than helping Americans effected [sic] by natural disasters."

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... As the Trump administration weighs the future of the federal agency tasked with responding to disasters, it is ending a key program that has been used by communities across the country to pay for projects designed to help them prepare for natural disasters like flooding and fires.

In a news release Friday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said it was ending the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program, calling the move part of efforts to eliminate "waste, fraud and abuse."

"The BRIC program was yet another example of a wasteful and ineffective FEMA program. It was more concerned with political agendas than helping Americans affected by natural disasters," the agency said in a statement.

In addition to ending the program going forward, FEMA said it was also cancelling all applications to the program from 2020 to 2023 and that money that was awarded as part of grants but not already distributed would be immediately returned to the federal government. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-05 08:52 PM | Reply

@#1 ... The BRIC program was yet another example of a wasteful and ineffective FEMA program ...

Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities
www.fema.gov

... The Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program supports states, local and territorial governments and Tribal Nations as they work to reduce their hazard risk. ...

So ... helping Floridians to protects themselves against hurricanes is now A Bad Thing?

And, fwiw, as I live here in Connecticut, I have zero, ZERO, issues with the federal government helping Floridians protect themselves against hurricanes.

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-05 08:58 PM | Reply

What could possibly go wrong?

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-04-05 10:20 PM | Reply

@#3 ... What could possibly go wrong? ...

At worst, deaths of Americans.

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-06 01:14 AM | Reply

Interesting that red state Kentucky declares state of emergency and FEMA is responding. Thought the DHS head was dismantling FEMA this week.

#5 | Posted by mattm at 2025-04-06 11:30 AM | Reply

This program was not for regular people, but for local governments to build new offices etc. and get kickbacks from local contractors.
It was a boondoggle.

#6 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-04-06 08:57 PM | Reply