President Trump has recently announced big plans for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The president called FEMA “a disaster,” and told reporters “I think we’re going to recommend ...

President Donald Trump suggested he might eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency during a trip to tour damage from Hurricane Helene. Gov. Andy Beshear tells CNN’s Kate Bolduan why he ...

A caveat to the plan, however, is that the states need to be properly equipped to deal with an emergency. A large state such as Texas would likely be able to have more effective responses to ...

It takes a perverse set of skills for a president to act in a way that squanders the opportunity to genuinely exhibit compassion for disaster victims while also lowering the morale of emergency ...

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There’s no reason for your emergency cash to sit idle. When building an emergency fund, we’re often told to focus more on liquidity and access than on yield. But there’s nothing wrong with ...

A key population harmed by Donald Trump’s proposed shutdown of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) would be Americans living in “tornado alley” in the central U.S. and the flood ...

Donald Trump suggested he may “get rid of” the Fema emergency response agency on Friday, as he visited the disaster-ravaged states of California and North Carolina. As he met with Democratic ...

The plan called for dismantling DHS and relocating FEMA to the Department of Interior or the Department of Transport. In addition, it suggested changing the formula that the agency uses 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 ...

“I think we’re going to recommend that FEMA go away,” Trump said ... it did not appear to reflect a well-honed plan. Even as he raised the prospect of soon signing an executive order ...

He blamed the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which has been the point agency for federal disaster response since its creation during the Carter administration. “The Democrats don’t care ...