Welch Announces Assistance for Farmers Hit by Natural Disasters

Welch announces assistance for farmers hit by natural disasters

BURLINGTON - U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) announced that Vermont farmers and producers affected by crop losses from natural disasters in 2023 and 2024 can now submit applications for assistance from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Supplemental Disaster Relief…

SENATOR PETER WELCH: I’m a Democrat and we need to fix FEMA with local control

Vermont senator introduces Disaster AID Act to reform FEMA after floods in multiple states, aiming to empower local leaders and cut through bureaucratic red tape

In Texas Floods, FEMA Was the Problem, Not the Solution » Sons of Liberty Media

“Floods don’t follow lines on a map.” “You had one job,” is often the refrain after a natural disaster. And FEMA is terrible at post-disaster responses. Unlike the Red Cross, it doesn’t even have the excuse that its only real purpose is fundraising off disasters while doing nothing about them. But FEMA’s primary role is …

In Texas Floods, FEMA Was the Problem, Not the Solution

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In Texas Floods, FEMA Was the Problem, Not the Solution – The Washington Standard

“Floods don’t follow lines on a map.” “You had one job,” is often the refrain after a natural disaster. And FEMA is terrible at post-disaster responses. Unlike the Red Cross, it doesn’t even have the excuse that its only real purpose is fundraising off disasters while doing nothing about them. But FEMA’s primary role is in theory disaster preparedness. It wasn’t much good at that even before the mandate of pushing global warming into everything …