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Mullin Holds a FEMA Roundtable with Omaha Fire and Emergency Leaders, Sep. 18, 2026

September 18, 2026 · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · 0:45:16

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What happened

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin held a FEMA roundtable in Omaha, Nebraska, in the Department of Homeland Security’s upload published September 18, 2026 — a working session hosted by the Omaha Fire Department at one of its stations with the fire chief, city and county emergency managers, FEMA Region 7 staff, and Senator Ricketts, as the participants introduced themselves on the recording.

Mullin told the group, as he stated it, that the President had wanted to call Senator Ricketts personally about $27 million being awarded from FEMA for reimbursement in Nebraska, crediting Ricketts’s advocacy, and described the President as hawkish on the line between state and federal responsibilities in disaster funding. The local officials used the session as Mullin invited them to — as feedback: Omaha’s emergency manager and fire leadership asked for streamlined processes and follow-through to the end of rebuilding and restoration, as they stated their requests, and Mullin closed by saying the way the department gets it right is by coming in, talking to the chief and the local authorities, and taking the feedback back, as he put it.

Why it matters

The Omaha roundtable is the FEMA half of the Mullin secretaryship on the record: the Secretary presenting disaster reimbursement as a state-first partnership, with a specific $27 million Nebraska reimbursement figure stated at the table and local responders naming the process fixes they want — the department’s disaster mission argued at a fire station rather than a podium.

Scoreboard watch

Scoreboard watch: the $27 million FEMA reimbursement for Nebraska described by Secretary Mullin at the Omaha roundtable, as he stated it — flagged for the weekly editor to check against FEMA’s award record; no entry is published from this page.

Sources: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, “DHS Secretary Holds FEMA Roundtable in Omaha, Nebraska” (official upload, Sep. 18, 2026, embedded above; remarks as delivered by Secretary Mullin, Omaha Fire Department and emergency-management officials, FEMA Region 7 staff, and Senator Ricketts; the upload carries no description, and this page is grounded in the recording itself).