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Trump wanted to eliminate FEMA. Now the administration says it won’t

David Richardson led the country’s top disaster agency for much of 2025 and was working to eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency during his tenure. Now, he says the administration has abandoned that goal.

NPR’s Rebecca Hersher reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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