A 2023 Government Accountability Office report indicated that FEMA only had 5,000 full-time staff members, as well as a group of reservists and emergency-response workers who could be called up to ...

Proposed FEMA reform would speed up disaster funding, provide technical assistance to small towns, and protect pre-disaster ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem denied reports suggesting the deployment of resources to Texas was delayed because of ...

Speed vs. accountability: The call to fix FEMA and the high stakes for Florida WLRN Public Media | By Tom Hudson Published February 20, 2025 at 11:24 AM EST ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency and lawmakers considered less error-prone courses for the organization's future during a Senate hearing Thursday. "We want to make sure FEMA has a culture ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency was so overwhelmed with other storms by the time Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico last year that more than half of the workers it was deploying to disasters ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is tightening her grip on her department’s purse strings, ordering that every contract and grant over $100,000 must now cross her desk for approval, according ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency may have been double-billed for the funerals of hundreds of people who died of COVID-19, the Government Accountability Office said in a new report Wednesday.

House GOP chairman demands FEMA accountability for Hurricane Helene after storm claims more than 200 lives. Some North Carolina GOP representatives have praised the federal response.

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