Department of Homeland Security
FEMA
Federal Emergency Management Agency
FEMA leads the federal government’s preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation work after disasters, principally under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act.
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.Statute · Official site
Related cabinet principal: Markwayne Mullin · Secretary of Homeland Security
Agency pages always show both columns: assisting, and complicating / harming. Language is tied to documented outcomes or standing public functions with a source. If a side has no structured public items yet, that column says so. Never a page that only dunks or only praises.
Assisting
Documented outcomes or standing public functions — not vibes
Standing function · From the record
Individual Assistance after a presidential declaration
FEMA administers Individual Assistance (housing and other needs) when the President declares a major disaster. OpenFEMA rows, when ingested, add declaration or registrant counts. Until then this is the standing program, not a guessed payout.
Standing function · From the record
Public Assistance to state, local, tribal, and territorial governments
Public Assistance reimburses eligible governments and some nonprofits for debris removal, emergency protective measures, and permanent work. Dollar totals appear only from OpenFEMA or USASpending when those APIs return them.
Complicating / harming
Documented outcomes or standing public functions — not vibes
Standing function · From the record
Individual Assistance eligibility and denials
Not every applicant qualifies. FEMA publishes eligibility rules and appeal rights. A denial or an insurance-first requirement can complicate recovery. This is the published rule set — not an invented scandal about a named survivor.
Standing function · From the record
National Flood Insurance Program requirements
NFIP flood-insurance purchase requirements and mapping can raise costs for property owners in mapped floodplains. FEMA publishes the maps and the mandatory-purchase rule. We do not invent a premium.
Watchdogs — indexes, not invented findings
Inspector General and GAO homepages. A homepage is not a finding. Specific IG or GAO rows appear on the ledger only when a sourced item is ingested.
Notable public actions
Federal Register documents attributed to this agency. Timeline only — not scored, not shoved onto a ledger side without a classification source.
No Federal Register rows ingested for this agency yet. Run npm run ingest:executive.