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Floods trigger renewed debate over FEMA and disaster politics

WBUR | By Here & Now Newsroom

Published July 11, 2025 at 5:57 AM HST

Here & Now hosts Scott Tong and Asma Khalid invite journalists Chris Megerian and Mario Parker to the Friday politics roundtable to discuss the Trump administration’s talk of remaking the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, as disasters unfold, and the rest of the week’s news in politics.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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