In a shift, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appeared on Sunday to walk back earlier plans for a sweeping dismantling of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, saying Trump wants to "remake" ...

A New York Times report found thousands of calls to FEMA went unanswered after the Department of Homeland Security laid off ...

The acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency is pushing back on criticisms of the federal response to ...

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem is under fire amid reports of a botched disaster response effort in Texas, one that the editorial board of the state’s biggest newspaper is comparing to ...

Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem denied that Texas flood victims could not contact FEMA's call centers in the days following the disaster.

Noem’s DHS, which oversees the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is defending its approach after four FEMA officials told CNN that a new cost-cutting measure requiring her personal sign-off ...

Kristi Noem Fucked Up FEMA’s Response to Texas Floods Noem took more than three days to sign off on additional FEMA requests for rescue efforts in Texas—a needless hurdle she herself ...

The federal response to the deadly flooding in Texas was hampered by a Department of Homeland Security policy implemented by ...

The Homeland Security chief denied that a memo she issued in June requiring her to approve FEMA expenditures over $100,000 ...

CNN did, in fact, report in a story that according to anonymous sources, Noem did not authorize deployment of FEMA Urban Search and Rescue teams until July 7, more than 72 hours after flooding began.

In response, a DHS spokesperson emphasized Noem’s commitment to accountability. “Under Secretary Noem’s leadership, DHS is rooting out waste, fraud, abuse, and is reprioritizing appropriated ...

It needs to be redeployed in a new way, and that's what we did during this response," Noem said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "It's not just FEMA that can respond in these situations.