President Trump, who calls FEMA “not good,” has issued an executive order and established a commission to look at ending the agency. He favors having states respond to their own disasters, but they ...

FEMA provides funds to governments and individuals to rebuild after natural disasters, but Trump has criticized it for being ...

From natural disasters to homeland security, FEMA’s development tells the story of resilience, adaptation and innovation in ...

County briefings go live every Wednesday at 11 a.m. The Feb. 5 briefing covered debris removal updates, relief programs and ...

I had the privilege to serve on FEMA’s National Advisory Council from ... One thing that has never occurred previously in granting disaster assistance is political requirements.

President Trump can reform or rebuild FEMA into the world-class emergency management agency that it can, and must, be. On January 24, while visiting North Carolina to gain insight into the arguably ...

Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act often end up serving as the mechanisms of waste and abuse. When the National Governors Association (NGA) created the blueprint for this new ...

President Donald Trump suggested he might eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Friday during a trip to tour ...

It also doesn't include the following programs because they aren't part of the Office of Management and Budget's ...

Republican lawmakers, including those from disaster-prone areas, are backing President Trump’s calls to overhaul the Federal ...

GOP lawmakers resisted the president's suggestion FEMA might need to "go away," but they support changes to the disaster response agency.

They registered for FEMA assistance ... them through their recovery,” said Claire Balsley, director of disaster assistance programs at the New Orleans-based disaster recovery organization ...