FEMA is available to provide help when any kind of disaster is too large for local emergency teams to handle on their own.

The Jefferson County EMA said if FEMA funding is cut operational and personnel costs will be too. Training and equipment to effectively respond to disaster will also be affected.

President Donald Trump said he wants to phase out FEMA after the 2025 hurricane season. It wasn’t the first time he proposed ...

A governor should be able to handle it, and frankly, if they can’t handle it, the aftermath, then maybe they shouldn’t be ...

As hurricane season looms, President Trump envisions a future where states take full reins from FEMA, sparking debate over ...

FEMA is “fully activated in preparation for Hurricane Season,” and is “shifting from bloated DC-centric deadweight to a lean, ...

President Trump said he will begin dismantling the Federal Emergency Management Agency this year: “We want to bring it down ...

President Donald Trump’s plan to begin “phasing out” the federal agency that responds to disasters after the 2025 hurricane ...

Trump might decide to shrink the agency even further with more job cuts, effectively rendering it unable to carry out its ...

We thought reform was possible. We were wrong. We were brought to Puerto Rico to fix FEMA’s broken disaster recovery ...

Houston officials watch closely as FEMA loses 2,000 staff members ahead of a hurricane season predicted to produce 13 to 19 ...