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States used to be on their own when a disaster hit. Then the Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927 and the Dust Bowl showed ...
FEMA's acting director, David Richardson, testified before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on Wednesday morning ...
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 government ...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) would be a Cabinet-level agency that reports directly to the president under a ...
Ken Pagurek had become increasingly frustrated with the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the agency, CNN reported.

Disaster at FEMA

Noem is right that FEMA’s current deployment seems to not be working all that well. But no matter how officials describe ...
Changes ‘will still happen’: President Trump’s FEMA plans loom over Texas flood response President Donald Trump visited Texas to assess flood damage as his administration considers ...
Decades of disaster response history help explain how changes to FEMA’s structure have affected its ability to manage ...