Republican appropriators adopted an amendment to their fiscal 2026 Homeland Security bill Tuesday that would partially restore a disaster resilience program shut down by the Trump administration.
The approval of the amendment from House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee Chair Mark Amodei (R-Nev.) represents a GOP rebuke of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s dismantling of the popular disaster mitigation program earlier this year.
The amendment, adopted during a full committee markup, aims to revive the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
It would turn it into a mandatory program, rather than a discretionary one, and place new guardrails on the kinds of projects eligible to receive BRIC grants.
