House passes budget; FEMA faces cuts

House passes budget; FEMA faces cuts

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Rep. Duel: House passes budget legislation

The House this week passed the general appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2026 as well as more than 50 bills that set spending limits for various agencies and the programs they administer. The Sen…

Cuts to FEMA and Disaster Preparedness Will Disproportionately Harm Disabled Americans

This post is part of the Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series edited by Jessica DeWitt and Shannon Stunden Bower. Submissions for this series are being accepted on an ongoing basis. Learn more here. Last year saw two historic, devastating wildfires in California, the Palisades fire and Eaton fire. Those two fires alone resulted in 29 deaths, over 16,000 buildings destroyed, burni…