President Donald Trump signed an executive order to establish the FEMA Review Council, which will be tasked with reviewing several aspects of the agency for drastic improvements.
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.
More than three years after Hurricane Ida devastated south Louisiana, the Federal Emergency Management Agency this month finally signed off on the first tranche of home elevation disaster grants for
About 40 people gathered at Pack Square Plaza downtown at Jan. 24 to demand an extension of FEMA's Transitional Sheltering Assistance program.
More than 600,000 Harris County residents applied for Federal Emergency Management Agency aid after Hurricane Beryl devastated the area in July 2024, marking a record number of aid applications following any disaster in the county's recent history.
FNC's Shannon Bream hosts Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts, WSJ White House reporter Amy Linskey, Richard Fowler from Forbes, and law professor Horace Cooper, to discuss President Trump's plans to reform FEMA,
STORY: U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday signed an executive order establishing a review council to evaluate the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA. Trump called on the council to hold its first public meeting within 90 days and submit a report to him within 180 days of the first meeting.
Speaking to reporters, the president predicted future disasters would need “probably less FEMA, because FEMA just hasn’t done the job. And we’re looking at the whole concept of FEMA.”
FEMA has not done their job for the last four years,” Trump told Fox News Wednesday, criticizing its performance in North Carolina in particular. “FEMA is going to be a who
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — Trump’s controversial pick to serve as Health and Human Services secretary — will face a confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Finance Committee. Kennedy will sit before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee the following day.
Alabama may be negatively impacted if President Donald Trump goes ahead with his plan to either eliminate or overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency, CBS’s Margaret Brennan told Vice President JD Vance in an interview on “Face the Nation” on Sunday.