The president's comments brought immediate pushback. Kentucky Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear called the elimination of FEMA a ...

From natural disasters to homeland security, FEMA’s development tells the story of resilience, adaptation and innovation in ...

Republican lawmakers, including those from disaster-prone areas, are backing President Trump’s calls to overhaul the Federal ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was created in 1979 under Democratic President Jimmy Carter, and Republican ...

The disaster-heavy states that former FEMA chief Fugate calls his “frequent fliers” also tend to be more Republican. About ...

The agency was created in the late 1970s and is tasked with helping states and communities impacted by disasters nationwide.

President Trump, who calls FEMA “not good,” has issued an executive order and established a commission to look at ending the agency. He favors having states respond to their own disasters, but they ...

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 ...

We’re just praying we don’t get so much as a bad rain in the next four years.’ In an executive order Monday, President Donald ...

Your job is to ensure that the agencies that make up the executive branch are managed effectively, rather than give up and abolish them.

state officials and assembled media that his administration would look to reform the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the nation’s foremost disaster response agency, or consider eliminating it ...

Trump visited areas impacted by flooding in North Carolina and fires in California. He suggested abolishing FEMA and putting ...