Cadmus 🌲<p>Just had a memo shared from <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DHS</span></a>, signed on 3/25/25 mentioning that disaster grants for NGOs and for Non-congregate sheltering are going to be reviewed. Disaster grants and non-disaster mitigation for state and local gov entities will be 'unaffected'. There is at least a 45 day backlog for the 1200+ pending payments (each request is bundled with many others).</p><p>'Sanctuary Jurisdictions' are being targeted for blocking payments for EMPG (Emergency Management Preparedness Grants) and HSGP (Homeland Security Grant Program).</p><p>They are 'ensuring' that the grants 'do not touch on immigration', their words..</p><p>EMPG is a big kicker, that pays for most of my state's EM professionals. Granted it's only about $10m/yr, that's still a lot of capacity we will now have to find. I recommend that we get a refund on the taxes we paid into this.</p><p><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/EmergencyManagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EmergencyManagement</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DHS</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/hatefulsadpeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hatefulsadpeople</span></a></p>