Rethinking Disaster Aid: Promoting Fiscal Responsibility and Risk Management
Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett As Congress reconvenes post-election, a critical agenda item is likely to be an emergency funding request to replenish disaster relief funds in the wake of Hurricanes Helene and Milton. With the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Disaster Relief Fund expected to run dry soon and the Small Business Administration’s disaster loans already exhausted, calls for a multi-billion-dollar emergency package are circulating. But this cycle—reacting to each crisis with ever-larger disaster relief bills, often […]
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