Whither FEMA? Whither Emergency Management?
LCrerar_CoE2025-06-24T17:13:59+00:00Whither FEMA? Whither Emergency Management? By Jim Mullen FEMA is about to experience a radical reassessment of its mission, or even its reason to exist. Such a review is the prerogative of any incoming administration. It would serve the nation best if the professional emergency management community, as politically and socially diverse as it is, were allowed to conduct a reasoned, professional review process to identify improvements. But, couched in buzzwords like “efficiency” and “accountability” it is difficult to believe that anything resembling a reasoned, professional approach will be forthcoming. This proposed FEMA “review” builds on campaign-generated lies about FEMA’s [...]