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In a newly revealed March memo, officials proposed ways to dramatically curtail the US government’s disaster response role, such as by ending aid for smaller disasters and cutting housing funds for survivors.
FEMA officials recently denied two state requests for resilience funds after disasters, a departure from how previous administrations handled recovery efforts.
It will take more than deep cuts in US government research spending and half a billion euros to convince some of the world’s brightest minds to settle on the other side of the Atlantic, experts say.