Noem looks to scrap FEMA and eliminate funding for emergency prep and long-term rebuilding
Noem looks to scrap FEMA and eliminate funding for emergency prep and long-term rebuilding - Government could move FEMA ...
FEMA hiring overhaul drives fears of agency dismantling as hurricane season nears
The decision to reshape the hiring process for the agency's disaster relief foot soldiers comes just months before hurricane ...
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Disaster Officials Are Facing ‘a World without FEMA’
Revelations that Trump's Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem plans to abolish or shrink the Federal Emergency Management ...
FEMA on the chopping block
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem expressed support for eliminating long-term disaster recovery efforts under the ...
Republican, Dem lawmakers join forces to reform 'inefficient' FEMA, detach agency from DHS
Reps. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., and Byron Donalds, R-Fla., introduced the FEMA Independence Act on Monday, which aims to ...
Legislation from 2 Florida lawmakers seeks to reform embattled FEMA
Two Florida lawmakers want to reform federal emergency management and improve the efficiency of federal emergency response ...
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Lawmakers introduce bill to break FEMA out of DHS
The FEMA Independence Act would have the agency report directly to the president. It comes as the Trump administration takes ...
If FEMA didn’t exist, could states handle the disaster response on their own?
“States don’t have that capability built to handle a disaster every single year,” Lynn Budd, director of the Wyoming Office of Homeland Security, told Stateline in an interview. Access to FEMA avoids ...
Musk Targeted FEMA. Storm-Battered Communities Are Paying a Price.
A FEMA funding freeze illustrates the extraordinary power of Elon Musk and DOGE, who have made claims of undue benefits for ...
Trump zeros in on two state officials as FEMA finalists
The White House interviewed emergency management leaders of Texas and Florida for the top federal disaster job.