Please provide, in writing, your plan to address the staffing cuts agency-wide, and especially in Region 1
Call on FEMA Administrator Cameron Hamilton to provide a written plan to address FEMA staffing cuts agency-wide and in Region 1 and ensure FEMA is prepared to support Americans during hurricane season and beyond.
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Evidence
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Blumenthal's office says he wrote FEMA Administrator Cameron Hamilton demanding answers on staffing shortages and asking, in writing, for a plan addressing cuts agency-wide and in Region 1 before and beyond hurricane season.
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WSHU reported that Blumenthal said he had asked Hamilton to address FEMA staffing shortages, had not yet received a response, and was again demanding a plan for disaster response readiness.
Assessments
The promise was to call on FEMA Administrator Cameron Hamilton to provide a written plan addressing FEMA staffing cuts agency-wide and in Region 1, and readiness for hurricane season and beyond. The provided evidence shows Blumenthal, while serving in the same Senate term, formally sent the demand and requested that written plan. Because the promised act was the oversight call/request itself, not FEMA's completion of the plan, the lack of a FEMA response does not prevent fulfillment.