State and local emergency managers are facing a serious question in the wake of President Donald Trump's first few weeks in ...

The president's comments brought immediate pushback. Kentucky Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear called the elimination of FEMA a ...

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

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

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was created in 1979 under Democratic President Jimmy Carter, and Republican ...

The agency was created in the late 1970s and is tasked with helping states and communities impacted by disasters nationwide.

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 ...

Federal disaster aid is nearly everywhere. About 94% of Americans live in a county that has gotten Federal Emergency ...

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 ...

Your job is to ensure that the agencies that make up the executive branch are managed effectively, rather than give up and abolish them.

President Donald Trump’s call to possibly eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency has Nebraska officials waiting ...

Trump visited areas impacted by flooding in North Carolina and fires in California. He suggested abolishing FEMA and putting ...