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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"FEMA's mission is to help Americans in their darkest hour. The agency isn't perfect, and its job is getting harder as disasters grow more frequent and more severe. But the solution is not to tear FEMA down – it's to work across the aisle to build FEMA up. This bipartisan bill takes common-sense steps to streamline the agency and make sure communities get disaster assistance quickly, efficiently and fairly."
— Rep. Greg Stanton (D-AZ), in a House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee joint press release introducing the bipartisan Fixing Emergency Management for Americans (FEMA) Act of 2025 (H.R. 4669).
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Transportation & Infrastructure
Transportation & Infrastructure
Taxpayers for Common Sense opposes projects where the national benefit doesn't outweigh the cost and advocates for a fix-it-first approach. We work to shift more of the financial costs and risks off federal taxpayers and onto the actual project beneficiaries themselves.