Privatize National Flood Insurance; shift disaster costs; cut DHS grants
Mandate lists privatizing FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program, shifting most preparedness/response costs to states/localities, eliminating most DHS grant programs, and removing DHS unions for national security.
Mandate
Mandate Ch. 5 (Department of Homeland Security) — Overview opportunities: privatizing TSA screening and FEMA National Flood Insurance Program; reforming FEMA emergency spending to shift majority of preparedness and response costs to states and localities; eliminating most of DHS’s grant programs; removing all unions in the department for national security purposes.
Undo plan
1) Keep a federal flood-insurance backstop with risk-based premiums and mitigation incentives.
2) Maintain needs-based federal disaster share for catastrophic events beyond state capacity.
3) Restore homeland security grant programs that fund fusion centers and first-responder equipment.
4) Protect collective bargaining for DHS civilians except narrow statutory national-security exclusions.
5) Verify: NFIP privatization transition analyses; grant program funding levels.
Sources
- https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf
- https://archive.org/stream/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL_djvu.txt
- https://whatisproject2025.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHAPTER-05.pdf
- https://whatisproject2025.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/2025_MandateForLeadership_SECTION-02.pdf