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

FEMA has been a crucial resource for Florida, responding to 21 disasters since 2010. However, it has recently faced some ...

President Donald Trump’s call to possibly eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency has Nebraska officials waiting ...

The agency was created in 1979 under President Jimmy Carter, who saw value in consolidating the federal government’s disaster response and civil defense efforts. In the years since, FEMA has ...

The Disaster Survivors Fairness Act aims to streamline the FEMA application process and improve coordination between federal ...

A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation Thursday that would create a new Wildfire Intelligence Agency, seeking ...

State and local emergency managers are facing a serious question in the wake of President Donald Trump's first few weeks in ...

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

(TNS) — During a Friday tour of communities in western North Carolina and neighborhoods in Los Angeles devastated by natural disasters, President Donald Trump told victims, state officials and ...

Bill Cassidy (R–La.) stopped short of condemning Trump's comments, saying some federal disaster agency is needed, even if that agency isn't FEMA. The lack of response from FEMA is particularly ...

About 94% of Americans live in a county that has gotten Federal Emergency Management Agency help for disasters ... the possibility of shifting disaster response to the states, including ...