BuildStrong America submitted a statement for the record on “Reforming FEMA: Ensuring the Nation’s Disaster Readiness Works for Americans” hearing to the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
“The FEMA Act of 2025 represents the most significant opportunity in a generation to shift federal disaster policy from paying for damage after the fact to investing in resilience before it occurs. BuildStrong America urges the House to pass H.R. 4669 and asks the Committee to use the legislative process ahead to ensure the bill’s new cost-share incentive and building-code provisions are implemented in a way that rewards genuine predisaster investment, avoids the administrative pitfalls of FEMA’s prior attempt at a similar incentive, and extends the same logic to the lifeline infrastructure on which every community depends.”
