County briefings go live every Wednesday at 11 a.m. The Feb. 5 briefing covered debris removal updates, relief programs and ...

Republicans are calling for the agency to be overhauled and President Donald Trump on Friday suggested maybe FEMA shouldn’t exist. “I’ll also be signing an executive order to begin the ...

Trump: Will Sign Executive Order to Fundamentally Change or Get Rid of FEMA ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he would sign an executive order to ...

FEMA was created in 1979 by an executive order by President Jimmy Carter. The federal agency has over 20,000 employees and is responsible for coordinating responses to disasters in the U.S ...

He continued to criticize the agency suggesting that bringing in FEMA was a waste of time for states. “I’ll also be signing an executive order to begin the process of fundamentally reforming ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — President Donald Trump surveyed disaster zones in California and North Carolina on Friday and said he was considering “getting rid of” the Federal Emergency Management ...

During a hurricane recovery briefing near Asheville, North Carolina, the president floated an executive order “to begin the process of fundamentally reforming and overhauling FEMA, or maybe ...

Instead of having federal financial assistance flow through FEMA, the Republican president said Washington could provide money directly to the states. He made the comments while visiting North ...

Instead of having federal financial assistance flow through FEMA, the Republican president said Washington could provide money directly to the states. He made the comments while visiting North ...

“The Democrats don’t care about North Carolina. What they’ve done with FEMA is so bad. FEMA is a whole other discussion, because all it does is complicate everything,” he insisted.

President Donald Trump warned late Wednesday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is set to face a reckoning following four years under the Biden administration, arguing the ...

FEMA is tasked with helping states and communities impacted by disasters from floods and fires to drought, earthquakes, tornadoes and hurricanes.