FEMA dramatically slowed its distribution of these grants last summer, according to a Post analysis of public data through May 4. The agency went from awarding roughly $91 million per month between February and June in 2025 to about $3 million per month for the rest of the year, the analysis shows. After facing legal scrutiny for holding up disaster-related funds, the agency reversed course and released $760 million in grant funding in March alone, of a total of $1.1 billion so far this year.
But two states facing heightened wildfire risk this year — California and Colorado — have received scarcely any of the money since last July, The Post’s analysis found. The delay has affected about 20 wildfire-related projects across the West, according to internal records, most of those in California and Colorado.
Never mind that the fire-prone areas are full of Republicans; it’s just pure revenge at the state level.
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My partner plus several of my friends work for FEMA and the sentiment is kind of fatalistic these days. Americans have really fucked these people over. Latest “Fuck you” from not just MAGA was the absolute apathy over the furlough except to get upset when TSA tried to halt the precheck lines.
Before that, DHS started firing people by not renewing their contracts on New years eve, barely a peep on the news or social media.
Also DHS handed down a decree that supervisors are not allowed to give anyone a rating higher than 3 (out of 5) for future annual evaluations. Basically a solid 3 out of 5 is a foundation for firing people.
When there is a major “temporal atmospheric deviation” (they’re not allowed to say “climate change”) at least we might have the national guard but as for FEMA, it feels effectively dead.