Project 2025 To Cut FEMA: See What That Means For You On This Map
Follow the money behind Project 2025’s push to cut FEMA and the NOAA.
How do FEMA and NOAA services help Americans? Check this map.
How will MAGA cuts to these federal agencies impact you? Which Republicans did not vote to fund FEMA? How much are they collecting from Big Oil to deny Global Warming that is driving more hurricanes and floods? Connect the dots for yourself with this map. See how cutting FEMA hurts you
- Republicans want to do away with NOAA and privatize all weather reporting, which would hit Appalachia harder than many other areas. — How Project 2025. Will Ruin Your Life
- How Project 2025’s mass layoffs of federal employees will cripple FEMA and NOAA — Stop The Coup 2025
- Project 2025 Proposes Eliminating Aid for Families and Businesses Rebuilding After Storms — Center for American Progress
FEMA
- The FEMA Public Assistance Program helps communities cover costs for debris removal, life-saving emergency protective procedures, and restoring public infrastructure.
- It provides supplemental grants to state, tribal, territorial, and local governments to respond and recover from emergencies or major disasters.
- After an event like a hurricane, tornado, earthquake or wildfire, communities need help to cover their costs for debris removal, life-saving emergency protective measures, and restoring public infrastructure.
Types of assistance FEMA provides
- Shelter
- Feeding
- Distribution of emergency supplies
- Support to owners and their household pets, service and assistance animals
- Support to adults and children with disabilities
- Mass evacuee support
- Reunification of adults and children — FEMA
NOAA
The NOAA supports economic vitality and affect more than one-third of America’s gross domestic product. NOAA’s dedicated scientists use cutting-edge research and high-tech instrumentation to provide citizens, planners, emergency managers and other decision makers with reliable information they need, when they need it including daily weather forecasts, severe storm warnings, and climate monitoring.
Emergency Response Imagery Online Viewer provides easy access to aerial imagery collected by NOAA aircraft following natural or human-made disasters.
Hold MAGA clowns accountable for Project 2025
This StoryMap was created with esri software using a real time weather feed from the National Weather Service. This map is overlaid with the political reps for that area (and paid with your tax dollars). The StoryMap also includes details on the biggest fossil fuel donors with data from Open Secrets and how the MAGA packed Supreme Court gutted the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in its fight against Global Warming.
MAGA extremism overrides disaster relief
DeSantis’ ordered over $15 million in taxpayer-funded advertising in opposition to Amendment 4 , Florida’s Right to Abortion ballot measure. Lauren Brenzel, campaign director for Amendment 4 pointed out that the money could be better used to deal “with the potential catastrophic destruction that could come from Hurricanes…” – Jessica Valenti
TakeAway: Stop the clown show. Vote for Kamala Harris and Democrats to fund FEMA, provide disaster relief and fight Global Warming.
Deepak
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