While FEMA in the past could divert resources for different disaster “seasons” like wildfires and hurricanes, natural disasters happen more concurrently now, straining the response when ...

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

Critics of FEMA have long called for a better, less-complicated disaster response system, pointing out that the agency often is tasked with doing too much, which hinders its ability to respond ...

Critics of FEMA have long called for a better, less complicated disaster response system, pointing out that the agency often is tasked with doing too much, which hinders its ability to respond ...

David Greene talks with Craig Fugate, who ran FEMA under President Obama and oversaw the agency's response to Hurricane Sandy, about what the agency can and can't do for people affected by disasters.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has responded to a record number of billion-dollar weather-related disasters so far in 2023. And in recent years, FEMA has been called on for duties beyond ...

One FEMA official directly involved in disaster response called the policy “a dramatic and unprecedented overreach” and contends that Noem “is effectively preventing the department from ...

Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) agrees that FEMA needs changes. He’s sponsoring legislation that would address efficiency issues and cut red tape. “We have to reform FEMA.

WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - President Donald Trump visited Texas Friday to assess the damage of last week’s floods that have killed more than 120 people and left around 160 more missing.