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发布时间：2025-09-11 05:05:26 来源：都市天下脉观察 作者：综合

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In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, FEMA faltered. The response was slow, political and disjointed. Mismanaged by someone without extensive emergency management experience, FEMA collapsed under the weight of its mission. Over 1,800 American lives were lost when the federal levees failed, and chaos ensued. It’s taken us nearly two decades to recover, and some communities never did. 

As a country, we vowed never to let that happen again. As Bush administration Homeland Security Advisor Fran Townsend wrote in her Katrina after-action report at the time, "When local and State governments are overwhelmed or incapacitated by an event that has reached catastrophic proportions, only the Federal government has the resources and capabilities to respond. The Federal government must therefore plan, train, and equip to meet the requirements for responding to a catastrophic event." 

For over a decade, the country made substantial progress on strengthening federal, state and local coordination and capabilities. We reformed FEMA, required hiring leaders with emergency management experience, invested in more resilient infrastructure, put in place stronger building and hazard mitigation standards and funding which have a massive benefit, and invested in and coordinated better with state and local emergency preparedness.  

FEMA EMPLOYEES PLACED ON LEAVE AFTER CLAIMING TRUMP LEADERSHIP COULD SPARK NEXT HURRICANE KATRINA

But in just eight months, the Trump administration is unraveling 20 years of hard-earned progress by gutting FEMA and hobbling the federal government’s ability to predict, prepare for and then respond to disasters.  

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, FEMA's disaster response is an issue again. FILE: Neighborhoods are flooded with oil and water two weeks after Hurricane Katrina went though New Orleans, Sept. 12, 2005. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria)

Since returning to office, President Donald Trump has set his sights on dismantling the very agencies responsible for keeping Americans safe in times of disaster. He first proposed eliminating FEMA altogether. Elon Musk’s DOGE operation’s terminations and voluntary separations slashed FEMA staff by nearly one third. Of the people left, they recently reassigned dozens of FEMA employees to Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the height of hurricane season. Trump even fired the first appointed acting administrator for saying he thought FEMA should stick around, and the current acting administrator won’t say whether FEMA will continue to exist.  

Trump’s FEMA canceled a $3.6 billion program to build stronger infrastructure — the kind of investment that helps communities improve drainage, elevate roads and homes, harden infrastructure like power lines and prepare for the future before disasters strike. 

DHS JUGGLES ‘MASS DEPORTATION’ PUSH WITH HELENE RELIEF, ADDS $124M AFTER BIDEN BACKLASH

In an agency known at times for bureaucratic processes, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem began requiring her personal sign-off for every FEMA grant or contract over $100,000, which, in today’s terms, is just about everything, causing delays that risked lives.  

This July, over 130 people lost their lives in Kerrville, Texas, after catastrophic floods swept through the Hill Country region. During those Texas floods, FEMA couldn’t deploy Urban Search and Rescue teams in time because they didn’t have clearance. There’s been no course correction.  

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