FEMA Has Canceled Its 4-Year Strategic Plan Ahead of Hurricane Season

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Source: Wired

Less than two weeks before the start of hurricane season, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency rescinded the agency’s strategic plan, which includes a document that guides agency priorities when responding to disasters, WIRED has learned. A new plan has yet to be put into place.

In a memo sent to FEMA employees on Wednesday, acting FEMA administrator David Richardson wrote, “The 2022-2026 FEMA Strategic Plan is hereby rescinded. The Strategic Plan contains goals and objectives that bear no connection to FEMA accomplishing its mission. This summer, a new 2026-2030 strategy will be developed. The strategy will tie directly to FEMA executing its Mission Essential Tasks.”

The four-year plan, which was issued in 2022 under then-administrator Deanne Criswell, is not a procedural plan for specific disasters, but rather a guiding document for the agency’s objectives and priorities. A link to the plan on FEMA’s website returned an error message on Wednesday and has not been live since January 2025, according to the Wayback Machine.

Multiple FEMA employees say that they did not know of another time when a strategic plan had been rescinded without another in place. “We are huge planners,” one employee said. “Things like the strategic plan have big downstream effects, even if it’s not immediate operationally.”

Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/fema-cancel-strategic-plan/

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SCOOP: Less than two weeks before the start of hurricane season, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) rescinded the agency’s strategic plan, which includes a document that guides agency priorities when responding to disasters, WIRED has learned.

— WIRED (@wired.com) 2025-05-21T19:47:27.483Z

[tanyev]

1. Good luck, everyone.

[Tarzanrock]

2. Welcome to Hurricane Season, you Southern MAGA assholes!

Fun Summer ahead for you MAGA morons! It's sand bag filling time again! Have you paid your "Hurricane insurance premium?" Just remember, you voted for the Turd and you voted against your own economic interests because you voted against FEMA -- so tough shit, Southern MAGA assholes! By the way, how is that "clean-up" coming along from Hurricane Helene? Sad, huh? You voted for this! Think about this when this year's hurricanes come blowing across your state!

[WestMichRad]

3. The new strategic plan will be

“Don’t get hit by a hurricane”

[LisaL]

4. But if you do get hit, you are on your own!

NT

[EarthFirst]

5. This ought to help alleviate the skyrocketing cost of homeowners insurance... nt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. I am very nervous about the upcoming hurricane season

[Linda ladeewolf]

7. I'm in Missouri,

Where tornados plunk down all the time. They canceled my homeowners insurance last year, because, they could. We are all on our own. Sooner or later we will all need help, we don’t have any more bootstraps. I am trying to save money for a used home, but they are at a premium too now. I’ve already told my DH that I’d rather live in a large travel trailer than a large apartment. I can’t stand being in town. I don’t like be8ng surrounded by buildings and people. All I can say is get ready.

[BidenRocks]

8. You're doin' a heck of a job, Brownie!

These people are even less qualified by design.
When the levee breaks, Y'all are screwed! (again)

Chump will need an auto-pen to deny all the FEMA requests.

[Intractable]

9. No insurance to cover us. No weather reports to warn us. No FEMA to help us.

[Brenda]

10. And No history to see how Democracy used to work.

They're erasing all data and history from multiple administrations. That's really fucking scary.

[Javaman]

11. at least the next two years, life in the areas of the U.S. that are hit by natural disasters, is going to be horrific.nt