From an article I posted in Politics:
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By March of 2003, FEMA was no longer a Cabinet-level position, and was folded into the Department of Homeland Security. Its primary mission was recast towards fighting acts of terrorism. In June of 2004, the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for levee construction in New Orleans was cut by a record $71.2 million. Jefferson Parish emergency management chief Walter Maestri said at the time, "It appears that the money has been moved in the president's budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that's the price we pay."
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I'm sorry, but I am calling bullshit on laying all the blame on the mayor. We have a pork laden Transportation budget that with the least bit of trimming would have covered the SELA funds that were cut off over the last three frickin' years.