FEMA News
Trump Can’t End FEMA But It Needs Reform, Says Obama’s FEMA Head
President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he intends to whittle down or phase out the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and last week he gave a rough timeline for that: "after hurricane season." ...
‘Abolishing FEMA’ Memo Outlines Ways for Trump to Scrap Agency
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem directed the Federal Emergency Management Agency to prepare a memo on how to abolish itself and create a re-branded, radically smaller disaster response ...
Why FEMA Keeps Denying Disaster Preparedness Aid to States
The Trump administration is increasingly skipping a form of federal disaster aid that helps states better prepare for future storms, flooding and wildfires. The Federal Emergency Management Agency ...
FEMA Head Said He Was Unaware of US Hurricane Season, Sources Say
Staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were left baffled on Monday after the head of the U.S. disaster agency said he had not been aware the country has a hurricane ...
While FEMA Faces Overhaul, Mississippi Tornado Survivors Wait for Assistance
More than two months after a tornado demolished his Mississippi home, Brian Lowery still sifts through the rubble, hoping to find a tie clip his mother gave him, made from the center stone of her ...
FEMA Senior Officials to Exit as Trump Targets Agency
The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency announced the departure of 16 senior executives on Wednesday, a significant shakeup of its leadership ranks less than two weeks before the start of what ...
FEMA Chief Says Agency Will Raise State Burden for Disasters to 50%
David Richardson, the new head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said on Thursday that states would in the future bear half the costs for responding to natural disasters, up from 25 percent ...
Loss of FEMA Program Spells Disaster for Hundreds of Communities and Projects
The textile mills that once served as the backbone of Mount Pleasant, North Carolina, have long been shuttered, and officials believed federal money would be key to the town's overdue revitalization. ...