Major meeting on FEMA overhaul recommendation suddenly shelved

The Federal Emergency Management Agency building in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 25, 2024. (Photo by Shauneen Miranda/States Newsroom)

WASHINGTON — The 12-member council tasked with overhauling the Federal Emergency Management Agency abruptly canceled the Thursday meeting where members were supposed to debate and vote on their recommendations.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, one of the co-chairs, left a U.S. House committee hearing early to attend the meeting, which was scheduled to begin in the early afternoon.

Florida Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz posted on social media shortly afterward that “Noem said she had to go chair the FEMA review council meeting. BUT I’m told that meeting was canceled.”

A White House official, speaking on background, said the meeting “was canceled th