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

The federal government offered thousands of North Carolina residents short-term shelter in hotels following deadly flooding ...

The president’s assault on nearly every branch of government, including the safety-related FAA and disaster-related FEMA, is ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a blizzard of executive orders and taken other actions since his inauguration on Jan.

Gov. Andy Beshear said any requests from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would be "looked at and evaluated." ...

On Friday, while visiting victims of September’s Hurricane Helene in North Carolina, Mr. Trump said he was considering ...

The president has said he think states would be better at handling disasters including hurricanes and wildfires.

Rather than dismantling FEMA, we need to reimagine it as an elite federal agency capable of managing the increasingly complex and severe disasters of a polycrisis age.

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

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

President Trump recently floated the idea of getting rid of FEMA. It would take an act of Congress to make that happen.

History and the Constitution show that disaster response is best handled by states.