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.
President Donald Trump said that his administration will step in and assist North Carolina as it recovers from Hurricane Helene months after the storm.
President Donald Trump said Friday his administration is considering getting rid of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
President Donald Trump on Friday halted Democratic California Rep. Brad Sherman’s defense of using the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Trump complained that long permitting processes and late arrival from FEMA agents have delayed homeowners from being able to start rebuilding.
More than a dozen Democratic senators signed a letter to Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), expressing a desire to work with the GOP on immigration reform
Hosts of MSNBC’s flagship weekend show mocked MAGA voters in red states affected by a spate of recent storms as President Donald Trump floated the possibility of scrapping federal support for states altogether.
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.”
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.
President Donald Trump has threatened to scrap the emergency agency FEMA.The Federal Emergency Management Agency is tasked with responding to disasters across the US.Trump's comments came during a national disaster recovery tour that saw him visit Los Angeles and North Carolina.
In North Carolina Friday, President Donald Trump said he would sign an executive order aimed at what he said would address problems inherent to FEMA.