Decades of disaster response history help explain how changes to FEMA’s structure have affected its ability to manage ...

Emergency management experts warned that suddenly shutting off the funding and resources FEMA provides to local and state ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) would be a Cabinet-level agency that reports directly to the president under a new bipartisan bill. The proposal comes as the Trump administration ...

The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees FEMA and the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office, confirmed to ...

Jonathan Cohn talk with an old friend Juliette Kayyem.

His recent executive order calls for stronger state and local roles in disaster management and hints at overhauling or even eliminating FEMA altogether. While the Trump administration has initiated ...

Since taking office, President Trump has called for the elimination of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, suggesting it ...

President Donald Trump has seemingly softened his stance on phasing out the Federal Emergency Management Agency completely, with the administration now planning on using it to highlight local and ...

However, Sheng cautions that if FEMA is 86'ed, state and local governments will need to prepare themselves to take on what would have been federal responsibilities.

And many emergency management experts and state disaster response officials say that FEMA plays a crucial role that state governments cannot fill. Responding to and recovering from the largest ...

States used to be on their own when a disaster hit. Then the Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927 and the Dust Bowl showed ...

The governor and top emergency official in Texas are both members of a council advising the Trump administration on options for eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency.