Funding cuts from the federal government could soon impact the resources available to you should disaster strike. Earlier this week, Donald Trump announced he was considering shutting FEMA down.Staff with the Jefferson County Emergency Management Agency said agencies across the state rely on those federal funds to respond to disasters.

At the direction of President Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) made sweeping cuts earlier this year to many federal agencies. Among them were the National Weather Service (NWS), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has warned people in Florida to prepare for Hurricane Milton as the agency faces scrutiny amid a money shortage. Milton is likely to intensify into a major ...

Thus FEMA is not ready,” the document states, according to CNN. The report arrives as Houston faces its own challenges with disaster preparedness. A recent study from Rice University’s Kinder ...

The remark was made during a briefing by David Richardson, who has led FEMA since early May. The U.S. hurricane season officially began on Sunday.

While touring areas of Florida still recovering after last year’s hurricane season, the acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA ... also reported on issues Floridians ...

Home inspections from the Federal Emergency Management Agency are underway after last month’s historic and deadly flooding in Litchfield, Fairfield and New Haven Counties, according to the agency.