Only one problem with that article. It lays the blame for FEMA budget cuts on the administration. Congress, NOT the President, writes and approves the budget. Congress also wrote and aproved the legislation creating DHS and folding FEMA into the DHS.

The vote in the Senate was 90-9 in favor of the bill. The House vote was 295-132. Evidently Congress, regardless of it's current carping, thought it was a good idea, and with the incumbency rate well above 90% I'd be fairly comfortable with the assumption that those who are carping about the state of FEMA now voted in favor of the Bill.