Reps. Jared Moskowitz and Garret Graves have teamed up to push Congress on a bipartisan bill to elevate FEMA to a Cabinet-level position.
With parts of the U.S. hunkering down for an intense hurricane season, a bipartisan pair of lawmakers is pushing to unchain the Federal Emergency Management Agency from the layers of government bureaucracy they say have 'bogged' the agency down. Reps. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., and Garret Graves, R-La., come from two states that have traditionally borne the brunt of the summer storm season.
Moskowitz and Graves disagree over whether that was the right move – but both insisted it’s an untenable situation today. 'Look, Homeland Security is becoming a little more partisan in the eyes of Congress…I’ve got to make sure that disaster management doesn't become partisan. Disasters don't strike Democrats or Republicans. It strikes everybody, it strikes Americans,' Moskowitz said.
is expecting 17 to 25 named storms in total. 'We are seeing flooding in places we didn't see before, right? We're seeing saltwater intrusion. We're seeing… more rain being dumped in places. We're seeing more fires, and we're seeing stronger hurricanes. All of this is related to climate change,' Moskowitz said. 'FEMA is going to be busy, right? And they're going to continue to get busier.
This really is just an agency that has gotten bogged down in bureaucracy. And when you think about the needs of a community in the aftermath of a disaster, people have gone through these traumatic experiences. In some cases, they've lost everything. The last thing in the world we need is our own government re-victimizing them.' Fox News Digital reached out to DHS for comment.
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