FEMA Has Canceled Its 4-Year Strategic Plan Ahead of Hurricane Season [View all]
Source: Wired
Less than two weeks before the start of hurricane season, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency rescinded the agency’s strategic plan, which includes a document that guides agency priorities when responding to disasters, WIRED has learned. A new plan has yet to be put into place.
In a memo sent to FEMA employees on Wednesday, acting FEMA administrator David Richardson wrote, “The 2022-2026 FEMA Strategic Plan is hereby rescinded. The Strategic Plan contains goals and objectives that bear no connection to FEMA accomplishing its mission. This summer, a new 2026-2030 strategy will be developed. The strategy will tie directly to FEMA executing its Mission Essential Tasks.”
The four-year plan, which was issued in 2022 under then-administrator Deanne Criswell, is not a procedural plan for specific disasters, but rather a guiding document for the agency’s objectives and priorities. A link to the plan on FEMA’s website returned an error message on Wednesday and has not been live since January 2025, according to the Wayback Machine.
Multiple FEMA employees say that they did not know of another time when a strategic plan had been rescinded without another in place. “We are huge planners,” one employee said. “Things like the strategic plan have big downstream effects, even if it’s not immediate operationally.”
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SCOOP: Less than two weeks before the start of hurricane season, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) rescinded the agency’s strategic plan, which includes a document that guides agency priorities when responding to disasters, WIRED has learned.
— WIRED (@wired.com) 2025-05-21T19:47:27.483Z
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