The current administration plans to use that same FEMA program to encourage migrants to leave. Noem said FEMA money will help repay Florida for the construction of “Alligator Alcatraz,” a ...

Trump, after all, is a byword for name calling and repeatedly employs four-letter words in his public remarks. At his 2024 ...

The acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency is pushing back on criticisms of the federal response to ...

Sarah Labowitz is a senior fellow in the Sustainability, Climate and Geopolitics Program at the Carnegie Endowment for ...

Los Angeles County is no stranger to catastrophes. It has declared 74 disasters in the past 20 years and often hosts major events, such as the Summer Olympics in 2028.

Natural disaster funds will be withheld from states facing fires, flooding, hurricanes, and tornadoes if they boycott Israeli ...

Trump Issues Wild Threat to States That Boycott Israel Donald Trump continues to kiss up to Israel—and Americans will pay the ...

The visit comes as local officials are expressing concern that cost controls are slowing down the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s response ... that FEMA needs changes. He’s sponsoring ...

Uncertainty is hanging over this year’s hurricane season as meteorologists predict “above-normal” activity and the Trump administration sends shifting signals over the future of the federal ...

President Donald Trump and Noem have vowed to phase out FEMA after the 2025 hurricane season, which ends on November 30, and plan to shift the burden of disaster relief to the states.

In the chaos of a major disaster, FEMA can greenlight hundreds of payments and spend billions of dollars in just days. During Hurricanes Helene and Milton, the agency obligated roughly $7 billion ...