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At this stage, I am refraining from drawing any definitive conclusions regarding the potential impact at the state or local levels. However, even if certain coverage areas are modified or implemented, it will undoubtedly require significant effort from all levels of emergency management. While this executive ...

I think my only comment is that whether the funding comes from the Federal government, State government or local government; it is all American Taxpayer dollars. It seems that it is more about shedding Federal involvement and pushing it down to the States and or local's to manage. This on the heals of ...

I think that this re-alignment of funding is greatly needed. As an emergency management community, we have averaged annually over the last five years $18 billion in natural disaster response and losses alone. With no increase in EMPG funding over the last decade (2022 notwithstanding), the cost of combating ...