The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) would be a Cabinet-level agency that reports directly to the president under a ...

Proposed legislation to overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which goes by the same acronym, the Fixing ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency Headquarters, in Washington is photographed on October 8, 2024 in Washington, DC. The agency faces changes after new legislation passed the House of ...

Both parties have eyed big changes to FEMA for years now, with the aim of streamlining disaster assistance. The “Fixing ...

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The legislation also seeks to eliminate FEMA’s backlog of 800 open disaster declarations, some of which date back decades. Changes to the way FEMA doles out funding would require state and local ...

FEMA is often a punching bag following disasters. Critics say the help is too slow to arrive, has too much red tape, and often repairs are already done or have to be done before it can help.

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib introduced legislation Friday that would require the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help ...

Later that day, Trump issued an executive order establishing a council to “assess” FEMA. The directive doesn’t order any immediate changes to FEMA’s organization.

While touring disaster areas in North Carolina and California on Jan. 24, 2025, President Donald Trump said he was considering getting rid of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). “I ...