grants
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GAO found FEMA left undecided 700 disaster-mitigation subapplications tied to about $2.2 billion, awarded no new BRIC grants from April 2025 to March 2026, and called the program 'wasteful and ineffective' without using its own results, which showed two goals met.
GAO report GAO-26-107774, released September 24, reviews FEMA's Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program, which pays for work done before a disaster, such as flood control and seismic retrofits. As of March 2025, FEMA had awarded 1,245 subgrants from its first four cycles and allocated about $2.5 billion of almost $4.8 billion available, while 700 subapplications associated with about $2.2 billion sat undecided; about 50 had waited more than two years. FEMA announced the program's end on April 4, 2025, awarded no subgrants and obligated no funds from April 2025 to March 2026, and announced a restart on March 18, 2026, after a federal court ordered it to reverse the termination. FEMA officials told GAO they did not use performance information when the agency called the program 'wasteful and ineffective', though FEMA had met two of its goals. FEMA will now review the backlog, but a higher discount rate in benefit-cost analyses, 7 percent instead of 3.1 percent, may make some pending subapplications ineligible. DHS concurred with all seven recommendations.
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DHS terminated 362 grants and pulled back about $1 billion in 2025. GAO found some disaster-mitigation projects delayed by nearly a year — and the department taking the same approach again without writing down what it learned.
A February 2025 executive order directed agencies to consult the U.S. DOGE Service and review grants for termination within 30 days. GAO's September 17 report on what followed at the Department of Homeland Security: all obligated grant disbursement paused in February 2025, then 362 grants terminated and about $1 billion deobligated across four DHS components, plus new requirements imposed on remaining recipients. GAO found the approach 'made it difficult to execute grant programs' — some disaster mitigation projects were delayed by nearly a year. The recommendation is not that the terminations were wrong. It is that DHS is continuing to take similar actions and has not incorporated what this round taught it.
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