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Austin officials are calling on FEMA to reinstate $50 million in flood resilience funding pulled by the Trump administration ...
Their experiences come as FEMA faces a future in which it may be dramatically reshaped or ... Shortly after the flooding ...
The head of FEMA offered no guarantees about the agency’s survival during a hearing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. He also ...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s acting leader has adamantly defended the federal government’s response to historic ...
FEMA is still paying Florida claims on 2024 storms amid debate about whether the federal agency should continue to exist.
The Trump administration appears to be drastically reducing the federal funds it offers to help states head off future ...
David Richardson, the acting director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, defended the Trump administration’s ...
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has been exerting more direct control over the agency, which President Trump has talked about "getting rid of." ...
Noem had severely botched FEMA’s Texas response by failing to renew contracts with companies staffing FEMA call centers, ...
U.S. House Democrats on Wednesday pressed David Richardson, acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, about his ...
The state Legislature will look at proposals for emergency preparedness in a special session that was already planned over ...
Red tape A key theme of the first FEMA Review Council meeting was how the federal government could reduce red tape. But current and former FEMA officials say Noem’s demand to personally sign off on ...