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Resilience Rebrand? Trump’s Disaster Strategy Shifts Power, Shrinks Support

New executive order pushes climate preparedness onto underfunded states, as federal dollars and disaster expertise vanish fast

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Louie Woodall
May 08, 2025

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▶️ Trump’s latest executive order on “Achieving Efficiency Through State and Local Preparedness” may sound like a harmless bureaucratic tune-up — but it could spell disaster for US climate resilience and preparedness. With FEMA on the chopping block and federal dollars drying up, states and cities are being left to fend for themselves. In this feature, I break down what’s really in the order, why it spells trouble for local governments, and why conflation of ‘resilience’ and ‘national security’ spells trouble.

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