TAMPA - "America, you are in danger," said State Rep. Angie Nixon (D-Jacksonville).

For one, in appointing David Richardson to be the acting head of FEMA, Trump went against a post-Katrina rule that all FEMA administrators must have disaster experience.

And two, they argue that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is breaking the law in pledging to review all contracts of a certain size, insisting it could slow down the response.

The $1 billion FEMA program called BRIC (Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities) is slated to end.

"We see additional layers of administrative burden that have been put in place that are slowing down the ability to move those resources before they've been asked for to make sure that we're not losing time," said Deanne Criswell, the former admin

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