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FEMA

(fē′mə)
abbr.
Federal Emergency Management Agency
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FEMA

n acronym for
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) Federal Emergency Management Agency: a US government body intended to coordinate responses to a disaster in the US itself
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FEMA

Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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Noun 1. FEMA - an independent agency of the United States government that provides a single point of accountability for all federal emergency preparedness and mitigation and response activities
Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security - the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security
independent agency - an agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments
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FEMA said April 2 that it plans to transfer additional risk "by engaging the capital markets for the first time through an insurance-linked securities transaction on or about July 1, 2018." The agency said what it describes as a "new building block" in the NFIP will allow it to transfer risk through both the traditional reinsurance markets and the capital markets.
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Shortly after the three Texas churches filed their lawsuit in September in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, President Donald Trump tweeted, "Churches in Texas should be entitled to reimbursement from FEMA Relief Funds for helping victims of Hurricane Harvey (just like others)."
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