WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security is marking the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s 47th anniversary while the agency operates under a funding lapse that has left FEMA without its annual appropriation for 47 days. The Disaster Relief Fund, the main source of federal money for disaster response and recovery, is dangerously low. As a result, FEMA has stopped training more than 45,000 emergency personnel each week, has more than 4,000 employees unpaid or furloughed, and state and local partners face limited resources. Delays in reimbursements affect local economies and ongoing mitigation programs. If the fund is exhausted, FEMA will halt non‑lifesaving recovery work, stop reimbursements, and suspend staff and field operations. Congress is urged to restore the fund to keep communities protected.
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