Kathleen Rice: “We have to back up our talk with money.”

This tragedy hit home for one of our former colleagues, former Congressman Rick Nolan, who lost his daughter Katherine to lung cancer even though she did not smoke.

Whether due to poor State, local, and Federal coordination, understaffing, or even a lack of political will, the elderly and people of color do not benefit from Federal disaster relief compared to other Americans.

How can we create or encourage a more holistic approach to disaster relief that improves intergovernmental coordination?

To that end, the administration has emphasized continuous diagnostic and mitigation capabilities to give threat hunters greater visibility into agency networks.