FEMA employees, their union and a former director want to see the agency become independent of the Department of Homeland Security. The House Homeland Security Committee is going to move aggressively to overhaul FEMA. Some members of Congress are looking to replace FEMA with a new National Preparedness and Response Authority that would still come under the jurisdiction of the Homeland Security Department. A former director wants FEMA to get immediate attention from the White House in a crisis, GovExec.com reports. The report also states that FEMA employees want to push forward for the next hurricane seasonindependently.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2119780/feds-and-fema-staff-mixed-about-agency-s-future.html