“In case you’re wondering why the response to Hurricane Helene has been a disaster… FEMA’s goal 1 is to instill equity as a foundation of emergency management. This is real.”
Almost 150 people are dead, thousands dispossessed and millions without power because of Hurricane Helene’s path of destruction through six states, yet the Biden-Harris administration’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has been revealed to be focused on “equity” as part of their top goals.
FEMA’s 2022-2026 strategic plan outlines its three “ambitious goals” – the first is ensuring that equity is the focus of any catastrophe or emergency. The Category 4 storm may have left a wasteland along the Southern Atlantic coast but FEMA, the federal agency tasked with responding to disaster relief after a hurricane, is firmly focused on…
