Less than two weeks before the start of hurricane season, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency rescinded the agency's strategic plan, which includes a document that guides agency priorities when responding to disasters, WIRED has learned. A new plan has yet to be put into place. In a memo sent to FEMA employees on Wednesday, acting FEMA administrator David Richardson wrote, 'The 2022-2026 FEMA Strategic Plan is hereby rescinded. The Strategic Plan contains goals and objectives that bear no connection to FEMA accomplishing its mission. This summer, a new 2026-2030 strategy will be developed. The strategy will tie directly to FEMA executing its Mission Essential Tasks.' The four-year plan, which was issued in 2022 under then-administrator Deanne Criswell, is not a procedural plan for specific disasters, but rather a guiding document for the agency's objectives and priorities. A link to the plan on FEMA's website returned an error message on Wednesday and has not been...
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