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FEMA Quotes
Lines on disaster funding, reform, and frustration
This page gathers FEMA quotes from volunteers, officials, and critics discussing how disaster response funding actually reaches local communities. For related reading, see our back quotes collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll just tell you, I'm not a big FEMA fan.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our volunteer fire departments know their needs better than Washington, D.C. They need more flexibility on spending grant money from FEMA and Homeland Security.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can recall back in 1998, in August of that year, when we had a horrible disaster along the Mexican border in the town of Del Rio. At the time, FEMA was the shining star of the federal government. It's now perceived as many to be the dullest knife in the drawer. Right or wrong, that's the perception.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, one of the perceptions, again, about FEMA is that there's been a demise in the organization since it became the - under - it started to become part of the Department of Homeland Security.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's bipartisan efforts to change how FEMA works or, more importantly, change how relief funding trickles down to us down here.
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- Nov 07, 2020
NBC News found that FEMA has redrawn maps even for properties that have repeatedly filed claims for flood losses from previous storms. At least some of the properties are on the secret 'repetitive loss list' that FEMA sends to communities to alert them to problem properties.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In more than 500 instances, from the Gulf of Alaska to Bar Harbor, Maine, FEMA has remapped waterfront properties from the highest-risk flood zone, saving the owners as much as 97 percent on the premiums they pay into the financially strained National Flood Insurance Program.
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- Nov 07, 2020