# 2025-02173: New Council to Fix FEMA's Billion-Dollar Disaster Flubs

2025-02173, Council To Assess the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is a Federal Register presidential document from Executive Office of the President published 2025-01-31, effective 2025-01-24 (as of 2026-11-04).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-02173
- As of: 2026-11-04
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-02173
- Title: Council To Assess the Federal Emergency Management Agency
- Type: Presidential Document
- Agencies: Executive Office of the President
- Citation: 90 FR 8743
- Published: 2025-01-31
- Effective: 2025-01-24
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-11-04

## In one line

New Council to Fix FEMA's Billion-Dollar Disaster Flubs

## Summary

The President has created a special Council to take a hard look at FEMA because it hasn’t been helping people fast or fairly during disasters, even after spending billions. This group of experts will review how FEMA works, fix any political bias, and suggest changes to make disaster help quicker and better for all Americans. The Council includes top officials and outside experts and will start work right away to protect communities and taxpayer money.

## Effects PRIA read

No economic effects identified for this document.

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## Sources
- [2025-02173 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/31/2025-02173/council-to-assess-the-federal-emergency-management-agency)
- [2025-02173 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-31/pdf/2025-02173.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-02173 (as of 2026-11-04).