The history of mismanagement of the Federal Emergency Management Agency is profound. It has weathered criticism over the decades for slow response, wasted money and more. But for Long Islanders, a broken FEMA would be a government disaster on top of a natural disaster.

The Government Accountability Office’s September report to Congress acknowledges these errors in adding a new category, “Improving the Delivery of Federal Disaster Assistance,” to its list of high-priority things to fix.

The report lays out issues that hinder its mission of emergency response, from staffing shortages to diminished resources, and concludes, “… the federal government will likely need to meet its disaster response mission with fewer available resources this year,” and says these factors “could reduce effectiv

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