How Project 2025 would wreak havoc on national disaster recovery efforts

The Southeast is bracing for Hurricane Milton, with the massive storm expected to make landfall in Florida on Wednesday. Residents there are still reeling from Hurricane Helene, which tore across the same region just days ago, killing at least 227 people and becoming one of the deadliest storms of this century. The worst of the damage is in the Big Bend region of Florida, where the storm made landfall, and in western North Carolina, where the storm battered mountain towns and caused catastrophic flooding that destroyed whole neighborhoods in and around the city of Asheville.