FEMA is responding to increasingly frequent climate change-fueled disasters. Hurricane season used to be the agency’s biggest concern. Now, it is activated around the clock as the US is battered by year-round disasters ranging from wildfires to spring thunderstorms producing biblical amounts of hail.
President Donald Trump on Sunday issued an executive order establishing a review council for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, just days after he floated shuttering the agency whose resources are strained following multiple weather-related disasters and which is burdened by past failures in handling massive storms.
FEMA is tasked with helping states and communities ... massive year-end appropriations bill signed into law by President Joe Biden. But California fire damages are expected to total among the ...
Trump’s announcement to overhaul or eliminate FEMA — especially in the midst of an ongoing disaster — is unreasonable and foolish. In a Fox News interview on Jan. 22, Trump suggested that FEMA would be facing a reckoning.
Although President Donald Trump has floated eliminating FEMA with an executive order, he does not have unilateral authority, according to federal law.
President Donald Trump says he wants to reshape the Federal Emergency Management Agency as the U.S. faces the formidable task of rebuilding after Hurricane Helene storm damage in the southeast and dev
President Donald Trump signed a record number of executive orders during his first week back at the White House.
President Donald Trump is carrying out his immigration crackdown nationwide, with over 1,000 arrests reported by ICE on Monday. The actions prompted a tense standoff between the U.S. and Colombia afte
ONE OF THEM UP TODAY, SOUTH CAROLINA’S DEADLINE UP TODAY. FEMA IS URGING YOU TO APPLY FOR HELP AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, ESPECIALLY IF YOU’RE HERE IN SOUTH CAROLINA. GEORGIA’S DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY 7TH IN NORTH CAROLINA,
Authorities are asking for public assistance in identifying a man who vandalized a local restaurant after an employee rejected his advances.
President Donald Trump already signed a flurry of executive orders aimed to reshape U.S. policy on trade, immigration and citizenship, federal hiring and more.