As Hurricane Milton heads towards the West Florida Coast, imagine if hurricane victims could not count on the federal government for aid. If Trump’s Project 2025 is implemented, this nightmare becomes a reality. Hurricane Milton is predicted to be a Category Five storm, a once in 100 year hurricane. But if Trump is elected, his Project 2025 will make natural disasters even more of a nightmare.
Trump’s Project 2025 Wants to Cut Disaster Assistance
Here are a few ways Trump’s Project 2025 will make natural disasters worse.
Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership, pg. 674-5: “This industry’s mission emphasis on prediction and management seems designed around the fatal conceit of planning for the unplannable. That is not to say NOAA is useless, but its current organization corrupts its useful functions. It should be broken up and downsized.”
Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership, pg. 675: “Focus the NWS on Commercial Operations. Each day, Americans rely on weather forecasts and warnings provided by local radio stations and colleges that are produced not by the NWS, but by private companies such as AccuWeather.”
Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership, pg. 664: “The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) should be dismantled and many of its functions eliminated, sent to other agencies, privatized, or placed under the control of states and territories.”
Center for American Progress: “Relatedly, in its section on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Project 2025 proposes the agency increase the threshold for disaster declarations, thereby making it more difficult for states and localities—and, by extension, the families and businesses that call them home—to qualify for federal aid after disaster strikes.
