Trump revoked the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard, essential for ensuring resilience against flooding for federally funded infrastructure projects, on his first day in office. This standard mandated compliance with design requirements to protect critical structures like schools, libraries, and highways amidst rising seas and flooding. Following devastating floods in Texas resulting in significant casualties, scrutiny increased on Trump's administration and Texas leaders regarding emergency preparedness and management decisions that could have mitigated the disaster's impact, including staffing cuts to the National Weather Service.
On his first day in office, Trump issued an executive order revoking a set of federal flood protections known as the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard. The rule required federally funded infrastructure projects to comply with certain design requirements.
Critical buildings such as schools, libraries, water treatment plants, public highways, and fire stations would have to be rebuilt to withstand flooding and rising seas to receive disaster aid from FEMA.
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