{"id":2442392,"date":"2025-06-03T16:17:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T20:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fema-wades-into-hurricane-season-unprepared-reports\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T16:17:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T20:17:55","slug":"fema-wades-into-hurricane-season-unprepared-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fema-wades-into-hurricane-season-unprepared-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"FEMA wades into hurricane season unprepared: Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffema-wades-into-hurricane-season-unprepared-reports%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2442392&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the Federal Emergency management Agency&#8217;s (FEMA) preparations for the hurricane season, which began recently. The White House maintains that FEMA is taking its responsibilities seriously, despite reports suggesting a lack of a formal response plan and leadership making light of the situation in meetings. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt emphasized FEMA&#8217;s commitment to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mayors-across-the-country-pressure-congress-on-bipartisan-infrastructure-framework\/\" title=\"Mayors Across The Country Pressure Congress On Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework\">providing federal resources<\/a> and reviewing emergency aid requests. However, there are concerns about the agency&#8217;s readiness, especially since it has reverted to an older approach to disaster response rather than deploying a new strategy.The article highlights the criticism FEMA faces for its preparedness and mentions that the agency&#8217;s administrator&#8217;s unfamiliarity with the hurricane season has raised eyebrows. Furthermore, discussions regarding the potential handover of disaster response responsibilities to states or private entities illustrate the ongoing policy debates surrounding FEMA&#8217;s role.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">FEMA taking hurricane season planning &lsquo;seriously,&rsquo; Leavitt insists<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2127089\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The White House maintained that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/fema\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Federal Emergency Management Agency<\/a> has taken <span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hurricanes\" target=\"_blank\">hurricane season<\/a>&nbsp;planning&nbsp;<\/span>&ldquo;seriously,&rdquo; despite recent reports that its leadership has scrapped its response plan and joked about the matter in formal meetings.<\/p>\n<p>With the start of the six<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watchdog-sues-energy-department-to-learn-if-bidens-oil-releases-are-politically-motivated\/\" title=\"Watchdog Sues Energy Department To Learn If Biden\u2019s Oil Releases Are Politically Motivated\">-month hurricane season<\/a> on Sunday, FEMA has <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >faced growing scrutiny<\/a> and criticism over its preparedness to respond to major <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/natural-disaster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">national disasters<\/a> along the Gulf Coast and East Coast.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/energy-and-environment\/3429453\/meta-nuclear-deal-20-year-energy-central-illinois\/\">Meta signs 20-year deal for nuclear energy in central Illinois<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/energy-and-environment\/3429345\/trump-replaces-ferc-chair-mark-christie\/\">Trump surprises FERC by moving to replace Republican chairman<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/energy-and-environment\/3429255\/national-weather-service-commences-rehires-after-layoffs\/\">National Weather Service commences rehires after layoffs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt insisted on Tuesday afternoon that the Trump administration was focused on responding to a major storm.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;FEMA is taking this seriously, seriously, contrary to some of the reporting we have seen based on jokes that were made and leaks from meetings,&rdquo; Leavitt said during a White House press briefing. &ldquo;Secretary Kristi Noem and the FEMA leadership are all over this. They are committed to ensuring that federal resources and tax dollars are there for Americans in need, and the president continues to review requests for emergency aid and carefully considers them.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Leavitt: We know we are into hurricane season now, and I know FEMA is taking this seriously, contrary to some of the reporting we have seen based on jokes that were made and leaks from meetings<\/p>\n<p>I think some of the media reporting we have seen on this is frankly sloppy and a&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SX2jiL0tM7\">pic.twitter.com\/SX2jiL0tM7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Acyn (@Acyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1929952195543478588?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 3, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    <\/p>\n<p>However, recent media reports have suggested FEMA is in uncharted waters as it wades into hurricane season without an official response plan.<\/p>\n<p>Agency leadership has scrapped a special, new plan for handling storm response. Instead, FEMA recently decided to return to the old game plan, which included going door to door to residents&rsquo; homes.<\/p>\n<p>FEMA has shuttered the programs, and much of the workforce is required to return to the old way of operations, according to a <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/policy\/fema-hurricane-plan-guidance-c5662d2a?mod=hp_lead_pos6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">report<\/a> on comments made to staff on Monday by David Richardson, the senior official performing the duties of FEMA administrator.<\/p>\n<p>The lack of preparations comes amid general concerns that Richardson is not familiar with weather patterns, including the June 1 through Nov. 30 hurricane season, when storms may develop because Gulf and Caribbean waters are warm.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Yesterday, as everybody knows, was the first day of hurricane season,&rdquo; Richardson reportedly told staff. &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t realize it was a season.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump has suggested FEMA would be better off handing over disaster response responsibilities to the states or the private sector.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This president has made it clear we&rsquo;re not going to enable states to make bad decisions with federal tax dollars, and then have the federal government later have to bail these states out,&rdquo; Leavitt said. &ldquo;We want to see states be responsible with their tax dollars to do as much as they possibly can, and then the president will deeply and thoughtfully consider any requests for federal aid that come to his desk.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>FEMA did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3428285\/ice-targets-visa-overstayers-boulder-terrorist-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">ICE TARGETS VISA OVERSTAYERS FOLLOWING BOULDER TERROR ATTACK: &lsquo;THERE&rsquo;S A BIG PUSH&rsquo;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former FEMA leader<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">&nbsp;Cameron Hamilton was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3406788\/fema-leader-cameron-hamilton-fired-undercutting-trump-karoline-leavitt\/\" target=\"_blank\">abruptly terminated<\/a><\/span>  in early May for undercutting Trump&nbsp;while testifying before Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton was fired less than one day after he told&nbsp;House lawmakers on the Appropriations Committee for Homeland Security that he did not believe the agency should be abolished. The remark marked a break from Trump, who has called for the agency&rsquo;s dismantling.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2127089\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2127089\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FEMA is committed to hurricane season planning, Leavitt asserts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2655,"featured_media":2442393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/AP24284702830135.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[42159,42345,18818,43078,14814],"class_list":["post-2442392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-disaster-response","tag-emergency-management","tag-fema","tag-hurricane-season","tag-preparedness"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/AP24284702830135.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442392"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2442396,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442392\/revisions\/2442396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2442393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}