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President Trump's Projected Budget Cutbacks Could Undermine Homeland Security

Published on 7/11/2017
When President Trump unveiled his fiscal year 2018 Budget Blueprint this spring, the emergency management community shuddered.

The administration has proposed $667 million in cuts to state and local grant funding for FEMA efforts, including the Pre-Disaster Mitigation Grant Program. It also calls for a 25 percent non-federal cost match for FEMA grant awards that currently require no cost match. Read more...