In his quest to make the U.S. government more efficient and agile, President Trump may eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency and channel federal disaster relief to and through ...

withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement without any plan at all. Editorial:Remove FEMA from Homeland Security bureaucracy. It will quicken natural disaster response. The most efficient way to ...

An executive order issued by Trump lays out a plan for a 20-member council that will be led by the secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security to evaluate FEMA and propose reforms within 180 days.

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 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

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 ...