President Donald Trump on Sunday issued an executive order establishing a review council for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, just days after he floated shuttering the agency whose resources are strained following multiple weather-related disasters and which is burdened by past failures in handling massive storms.

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 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,

The acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency wrote to staff reassuring them that the agency's continued existence was vital to the country's disaster response efforts, after President Donald Trump said he wanted to overhaul or scrap it.

President Donald Trump suggested he might eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Friday during a trip to tour damage from Hurricane Helene flooding in North Carolina, a state he’s said “has been abandoned by the Democrats.

The executive order begins the process of a review of the agency's effectiveness by establishing a 20-member task force

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.”

US President Donald Trump has issued an executive order to establish a review council for FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency. This comes just days after Trump criticized FEMA, calling it a "disappointment" and suggesting the agency should be "gotten rid of.

The recent disastrous wildfires in Southern California are an extreme example of the challenges homeowners face after their home is destroyed or seriously

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday issued an executive order establishing a review council to evaluate the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), stopping short of instant action to shut or reshape the country's lead disaster response agency.