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The Federal Emergency Management Agency has proposed cutting nearly $1 billion in grant funding for communities and first ...
The Trump Administration ended the BRIC program even as the nation is experiencing increasingly frequent and wetter storms. The state says $200 million in grants were affected in North Carolina.
Twenty states are suing the Trump administration over its decision to cancel FEMA’s BRIC program, which funded nearly 2,000 ...
FEMA says more than $3.6 billion of BRIC funds will be returned to the federal Disaster Relief Fund, for disaster response and recovery, and an additional $882 million is being returned to the U.S ...
Loss of FEMA program spells disaster for hundreds of communities and their projects JACK BROOK Associated Press/Report for America Apr 28, 2025 ...
According to Radio Bilingüe, the impact of the fundings cuts will likely hit rural and low-income communities.
With the cancellation of the federal Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program, here’s what local counties stand to lose: Sonoma County: $37 million Mendocino County: $37. ...
While the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Grant Programs Directorate (GPD) revised fire grant policies for the Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG), Staffing for Adequate Fire and ...
For hundreds of communities nationwide, plans to protect against natural disasters and climate change have been upended because of the Trump administration's elimination of a federal grant program.
But, in April, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced the end to the program and the retroactive cancellation of all applications and awards from 2020 to 2023. “The timing was ...
In August, Mendocino County was awarded a $3.6 million grant through the federal Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) grant program, the first phase of a $50-million project ...