From NRDC: Death by a Thousand Cuts: FEMA Under the Second Trump Administration. The agency’s mission is simple: to help people before, during, and after a disaster. This administration is making that almost impossible.

“In a year, the Trump administration has crippled the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) through indecision, layers of bureaucracy, and massive staff loss. The American public is now faced with a FEMA that is too buried in paperwork to respond, too afraid to act, and increasingly too depleted to lead. Communities reeling from catastrophes are left asking: “Will FEMA be there to help?” And increasingly, the answer is “no.”