President Donald Trump threatened “getting rid of FEMA,” the Federal Emergency Management Agency. “FEMA has turned out to be a disaster,” Trump said on Friday during a tour of a North Carolina neighborhood destroyed by Hurricane Helene.
FEMA is looking for property management companies with ready-for-occupancy residential or rental properties in Georgia communities affected by Hurricane Helene.
From natural disasters to homeland security, FEMA’s development tells the story of resilience, adaptation and innovation in emergency management
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.
Michael Brown said that Congress should give the disaster relief agency back its “independent agency status,” allowing it direct
While DHS employees largely work in-person, the acting homeland security secretary called remote work rates at some components "unacceptable."
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 not-well-managed crises in North Carolina and California,
President Donald Trump is preparing to reshape the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which has been on the frontlines of responding to disasters in California and North Carolina.
If Noem is confirmed as head of DHS, she will be tasked with overseeing FEMA as it navigates a response to those disasters that Trump has thus far been sharply critical of, and as the president ...
FEMA is part of the Department of Homeland Security ... Mario Tama/Getty Images The think tank proposed moving the agency out of DHS and privatizing some of its programs, including the National ...
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, nominee for Secretary of Homeland Security, vowed to overhaul FEMA's disaster response times, enforce stricter in-office policies and eliminate political bias in relief efforts during her confirmation hearing.