President Donald Trump said he plans to overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as North Carolina is still recovering from Hurricane Helene more than 120 days after the storm ...

FEMA is part of the Department of Homeland Security, which has an operating budget and disaster relief fund that needs to be replenished by Congress every year to help states deal with disaster ...

President Donald Trump warned late Wednesday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is set to face a reckoning following four years under the Biden administration, arguing the ...

Trump said during a press briefing that he would sign an “executive order to begin the process of fundamentally reforming and overhauling FEMA, or maybe getting rid of them.” Later during a ...

Now, days into his presidency, Trump says he may “get rid” of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) entirely. Trump traveled to Asheville, North Carolina, on Friday to meet with ...

Since Hurricane Katrina, when the federal response was severely criticized, FEMA has been led by disaster management professionals who have run state or local emergency management agencies ...

President Donald Trump on Friday floated the idea of overhauling or eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, while visiting North Carolina to view the aftermath of last year's ...

FEMA was run by then-President Joe Biden's administration for the last four years. During a briefing about recovery efforts, the Republican Trump promised to speedily help North Carolina "get the ...

FEMA was created in 1979 by an executive order by President Jimmy Carter. The federal agency has over 20,000 employees and is responsible for coordinating responses to disasters in the U.S ...

Trump, on his first trip since reclaiming the presidency on Monday, accused FEMA of bungling emergency relief efforts in North Carolina. He vowed to sign an executive order to begin the process ...

Instead of having federal financial assistance flow through FEMA, the Republican president said Washington could provide money directly to the states. He made the comments while visiting North ...

A deadly winter storm that brought ice, snow and freezing temperatures to North Carolina has intensified scrutiny of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) handling of disaster recovery ...