FEMA halts disaster worker cuts as massive winter storm threatens millions of Americans

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..........Noem announced in March 2025 plans to eliminate FEMA, and by May, the acting head of the agency was fired one month before Hurricane season.

The National Weather Service (NWS) said the "long-duration winter storm" will bring widespread heavy snow, sleet, and freezing rain across the central and eastern U.S. this weekend and into early next week.

Frigid temperatures, gusty winds, and dangerous wind chills will expand from the north-central U.S. to the Southern Plains, MS Valley, and Midwest, according to the agency.

“FEMA is on the ground and leaning forward, proactively supporting states in the path of this winter storm to ensure a rapid and well-coordinated response. Disasters are best when locally execute, state managed and federally supported, a role we take seriously," FEMA wrote in an internal document seen by CNN.