The department is responsible for coordinating relief and rescue efforts in the event of natural disasters, but Trump has ...

FEMA provides funds to governments and individuals to rebuild after natural disasters, but Trump has criticized it for being ...

Recent comments by President Trump have stirred discussions, as he suggested that FEMA might need to be revamped or possibly ...

Governors and state legislatures may have to bolster their natural disaster response and recovery efforts in the coming years ...

FEMA was absorbed by DHS in 2003, prompting criticism that its highly bureaucratic nature rendered the agency ineffective in addressing natural disasters.

Trump says "FEMA is not good" and he plans to overhaul or eliminate the agency as he tours disaster ravaged zones in North Carolina and California ...

The acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency wrote to staff reassuring them that the agency's continued ...

Trump visited areas impacted by flooding in North Carolina and fires in California. He suggested abolishing FEMA and putting ...

President Donald Trump on Sunday issued an executive order establishing a review council for the Federal Emergency Management ...

National Guard soldiers, FEMA employees and aid workers unload ... (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Ahead of a tour of two states recently struck by natural disasters, President Donald Trump ...

On Friday, the president floated the idea of abolishing FEMA while visiting Asheville, North Carolina, which is still suffering from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene in September.

In the first official trip of his second term, Trump also threatened to withhold disaster aid to California unless the state ...