Sat.Jul 13, 2024

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FEMA Is Denying Disaster Aid Requests Due to Lack of Funding

Recovery Diva

From Fortune: FEMA is denying requests for aid as relief fund runs dry amid record number of costly disasters “FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund could be depleted by mid August without additional money from Congress, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told the Associated Press last month. The fund faces a more than $6 billion deficit without supplemental appropriations, according to its most recent monthly report.

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The Return of the Military Draft

The Rand Blog

The fact that the military draft is making a comeback should teach us an important lesson about the way we think about the future of warfare. As much as we may be enamored with the idea of increasingly bloodless wars fought largely by machines, battlefield reality has proved the opposite.

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